" The idea of being so close to freedom, so close to bliss, is unsettling as we drive in the opposite direction to it. Perhaps we've come the closest of anyone in this world. And maybe God saw fit to intervene for our sins.

I wish I could believe in something so righteous, but then I'd have to believe that the place from which we escaped was created by God's will. That our disease-infected world is nothing more than the scope of his wrath. And I can't think of any reason, God, or man, that one could be so cruel and unforgiving. "

― Keri Lake , Calico Descending (Juniper Unraveling, #2)