Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


She sat there, racking her brain, the smudge of Oakland at her
back, staring across the bay at the smudge of Ban Francisco. Yet
the sun was good; the wind was good, as was the keen salt air in
her nostrils; the blue sky, flecked with clouds, was good. All
the natural world was right, and sensible, and beneficent. It was
the man-world that was wrong, and mad, and horrible. Why were the
stupid stupid? Was it a law of God? No; it could not be. God had
made the wind, and air, and sun. The man-world was made by man,
and a rotten job it was. Yet, and she remembered it well, the
teaching in the orphan asylum, God had made everything. Her
mother, too, had believed this, had believed in this God. Things
could not be different. It was ordained.

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