“Old texts say many things. You say these things as though they are special – as if it is unusual for one person to see another in pain, and wish to help. As if, he says quietly, to do the extraordinary – or what you think is extraordinary – a person must be told to do so, by the Divine.”

“Old texts say many things. You say these things as though they are special – as if it is unusual for one person to see another in pain, and wish to help. As if, he says quietly, to do the extraordinary – or what you think is extraordinary – a person must be told to do so, by the Divine.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett