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Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4) QUOTES

Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4) QUOTES

1 " literal lightning bolts rippled out of him. “No—knowledge. Share some of the secrets of the universe, let them in on some of your divine, God-only-knows knowledge.” “Why?” “Faith,” Penemue said. More confused looks. “By sharing a bit of your divinity with them, you will be expressing your own faith in them, and that … that is something they will reciprocate in kind.” And therein lay the crux of Penemue’s argument. Faith is a two-way street, and when you think about it—really think about it—it’s a tough pill to swallow. Faith was always one way: humans to gods. The idea that faith could be two ways, especially in the way Penemue meant it, was something most couldn’t wrap their heads around. Hell, I struggled with it and I’m an atheist. Even after the gods left and there was irrefutable proof that they existed, it didn’t change how I felt, because I never had faith in them before, and that didn’t change after. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

2 " Truth was, most of these Others weren’t really sick—they were just bad at being mortal. They still tried to live by the same rules that had governed them for thousands of years, and this new world was so cumbersome with all the things they had to remember. Things like eating, hydrating, sleeping. And shitting. You’d be surprised how many Others suffered from self-imposed constipation pains simply because they couldn’t live with the daily indignity of a morning poo. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

3 " I was so happy that if I had died at that moment, I would have done so smiling. But that’s the problem with elated, unfamiliar joy: you start to wonder if it’ll last, and that thought inevitably leads you down the dark path of how this joy is even possible. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

4 " Penemue once told me that Drambuie was the closest thing mortals had to ambrosia. He also told me that he drank when he wanted to destroy it all. That he was an introspective drunk who knew that drinking was a form of slow suicide. A self-destruction that wasn’t a countdown from ten, but a version of Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall. Well, Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Bottles of Drambuie on the Wall. He wanted to see how far down he needed to get before his heart finally broke. “Why not?” he slurred while on a particularly terrible bender. “My heart has already figuratively broken. It’s only a matter of time until the old beating lump in my chest catches up with a more literal breakage. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

5 " A toast—to Hope. She’s a fickle bitch, so willing to spread her goodwill over us all even when she knows that the promises she offers will never be fulfilled. And what do we do? We believe her, because to not believe in Hope is to sacrifice the part of us that is our humanity.” He "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

6 " She really believed she was going to save us all … but then again, so did Pan, and so did the Avatar of Gravity. The problem with saviors is they don’t tend to care who they step on to get what they believe we all want. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

7 " The love felt by angels is conditional and tied to the worship of God and admiration of His Creations. It is not what the humans have. Their love is unconditional. What’s more—it can change, evolve. Be different. Penemue wishes to know this love. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)

8 " what he feels is something that he did not expect … for if he had been asked to guess what human love feels like, he would have never guessed … this. It is total, all-consuming, devastating and liberating all at the same time. “Love is … total.” That is the only word Penemue can find to describe what he feels. For with his own love within him and human love now a part of him, Penemue finally feels complete. "

― R.E. Vance , Paradise Lost Epic Boxed Set (Paradise Lost #1-4)