““The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?”
“God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.”
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.”

— Connie Willis , book Doomsday Book

Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 496)

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““The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?”“God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.”Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.”

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““The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?”
“God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.”
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.”