# Quote — Elie Wiesel, The Trial of God

> PRIEST: Are you taking their side, daughter? You’ll burn in hell.
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> MARIA: Better in hell with them than in paradise with you.

- Author: [Elie Wiesel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel.md)
- Book: [The Trial of God](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god.md)
- Page: 31
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#The_Trial_of_God_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/priest-are-you

## More from this book

> MARIA: Hell? Is he talking about hell? Good. For a moment I was afraid he was making sense.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/maria-hell-is-he-talking.md)

> BERISH: Prosecutor. That’s what I am going to be. Prosecutor.
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> MARIA: What’s that?
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> AVREMEL: That’s someone nice who has the right to be nasty.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/berish-prosecutor-thats.md)

> SAM: Isn’t this a circus...of sorts?
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> MENDEL: No. It’s theater. There is a difference.
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> SAM: Really? What is it?
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> MENDEL: A circus employs only clowns.
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> SAM: So does the theater.

p. 120 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/sam-isnt-this.md)