# Quote — James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter

> He was a devout believer in the second chance. To the man who asked, “What’s the point of closing the barn door after the horse has been stolen?” Murray would answer, “The point is that the door is now closed.”

- 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: 12
- 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/he-was-a-devout

## 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)