" There's so much to do in the next five years," Raven said quietly. "And All for what? Once we finally get there, once we have the job and the house and the family, we just sit there and wait for it all to be taken away from us again."
Lotte frowned. "What d'you mean?"
"We wait to die" Raven said.
"What?"
"The job, the house, the family, all that. It's just a distraction. A distraction to keep us from facing the fact that it's all going to end."
"Don't you believe in God?"
Raven looked at her in surprise. "No. Do you?"
She heaved a sigh. "I suppose not. I used to though.........." ...........
"What about you? Lotte asked him. "Did you ever believe in God?"
"Yes. Not in God as a man dressed in white sitting on a cloud, but in the concept of there being some kind of Creatoer – yes."
"When did you stop believing?" Lotte asked.
"When my mother died," Raven said. "

― Tabitha Suzuma , From Where I Stand