There must be somewhere the justification of such gladness.

There must be the father of it somewhere." "Well! I don't like to say, after your kindness in coming here to take care of me, that you talk the worst rubbish I ever heard; but just tell me of what use is it all to me, in the state I am in! What I want is to be free of pain, and have some pleasure in life--not to be told about a father." "But what if the father you don't want is determined you shall not have what you do want?
What if your desire is not worth keeping you alive for?
And what if he is ready to help your smallest effort to be the thing he wants you to be--and in the end to give you your heart's desire ?" "It sounds very fine, but it's all so thin, so up in the clouds! It don't seem to have a leg to stand upon.

Why, if that were true, everybody would be good! There would be none but saints in the world! What's in it, I'm sure I don't know." "It will take ages to know what is in it; but, if you should die now, you will be glad to find, on the other side, that you have made a beginning.

For my part, if I had everything my soul could desire, except God with me, I could but pray that he would come to me, or not let me live a moment longer; for it would be but the life of a devil." "What do you mean by a devil ?" "A power that lives against its life," said Mary.
Mr.Redmain answered nothing.

He did not perceive an atom of sense in the words.