# Quote — James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter

> Murray held his daughter at arm’s length. “Does God...er, visit you?”
>
> “She doesn’t even whisper to me. I listen, but she doesn’t talk. It’s not fair.”
>
> God didn’t talk. The best news he’d heard since Gabriel Frostig announced his embryo. “Look Julie, it’s good she doesn’t talk. God asks her children to do crazy things. It’s good she doesn’t whisper. Understand?”
>
> “I guess.”
>
> “Really?”
>
> “Uh-huh. Where’d the crab go? Is he looking for his friends?”
>
> A profound weariness pressed upon Murray. “Yes. Right. His friends. It’s good God doesn’t whisper.”

- 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: 46
- 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/murray-held-his

## 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)