Sarah Perry: ‘For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades’ | Sarah Perry | The Guardian

‘And besides,’ she said, evidently unable to speak frankly, ‘how will I know how to be good, if there is nobody to tell me?’ ‘Oh, goodness, what is it? Nobody can agree,’ said Thomas, in whom pain relief had raised a nauseated giddy sensation. ‘I scarcely agree with myself from one day to the next – sometimes I think goodness is something fixed and

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can make you feel healed and religious; it can make you feel dangerously wild. What’s the difference? Your world realigns in a juddering oceanic shimmer. You feel that your soul is dazzling, delicate, unlimited; you understand that you can give the best of yourself away to everyone you love without ever feeling depleted. This is what it feels like

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Dunham, as you might guess, is not much given to religious impulses, but she is quietly fascinated by Karr’s faith, her association with this guy “Jesus.” So Dunham asks: “What’s it like to be a person who thinks and cares about Jesus and has religion in your life but hangs out with the New York literati?” Karr tries to defuse some mistaken impress

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Perhaps it was that – the loss of belief – that constituted his yearning for the old life. Whatever it was, he and his wife had built things that had flourished, had together expanded the sum of what they were and what they had; life had responded willingly to them, had treated them abundantly, and this – he now saw – was what had given him the con

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