# Quote — Jeffrey Ford, Crackpot Palace

> But I was immediately brought to attention again when Sister said, “Dead pets and dead babies who haven’t been baptized, that’s who goes to Limbo.”
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> I wondered if dead babies had no souls. And then my imagination kicked in and I envisioned Limbo—a quiet, idyllic place populated by nothing but pets and babies. It seemed like a good place to go. Obviously much better than Hell, what with its eternal fires, serpents, and bat-winged, pitch-fork-wielding demons. Eternal suffering—sort of like church, but only longer and a lot hotter. Actually, Limbo even seemed better than Heaven, the rewards of which—clouds, harp music, and angels—after a long life of always doing the right thing seemed pretty underwhelming. What would you do for the rest of eternity after you learned to play the harp real good?

- Author: [Jeffrey Ford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford.md)
- Book: [Crackpot Palace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace.md)
- Page: 216
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford#Crackpot_Palace_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/but-i-was

## More from this book

> I knew we were going somewhere I didn’t have any interest in going, because I was wearing a tie and jacket.

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/i-knew-we-were.md)

> “You two don’t know yet,” he said. “When you get old, you think more about the past than about what you did five minutes ago. Time changes.”

p. 289 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/you-two-dont.md)

> Time became a sermon, preaching itself.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/time-became-a-sermon.md)