# Quote — James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter

> “Actually, the answer’s quite simple.” Two red eyes floated in the mist.
>
> “Really? Tell me. Why does God allow evil?”
>
> The red eyes vanished, leaving only the lantern and the night. “Because power corrupts,” said Wyvern’s disembodied voice. “And absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [Only Begotten Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter.md)
- Page: 85
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#Only_Begotten_Daughter_(1990)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/actually-the-answers

## More from this book

> I think you’re so full of shit you’ve got roses growing out of your ass.

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/i-think-youre.md)

> “Myriad contradictory worlds,” lectured Professor Jerome Delacato, “forever splitting off from each other like branches on a tree, so that, somewhere out there, I am presently giving a lecture explaining how the many-worlds hypothesis cannot possibly be true.”

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/myriad-contradictory-worlds.md)

> The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.

p. 260 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/the-sermon-on-the.md)