# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods

> “Sometimes I despair, Ellat. Will I ever be able to surprise you?”
>
> “Yes. If you’d listen to me, ever, it would surprise me enormously.”

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/marianne-the-madame-and-the-momentary-gods.md)
- Page: 137
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Marianne,_the_Madame,_and_the_Momentary_Gods_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/marianne-the-madame-and-the-momentary-gods/sometimes-i-despair

## More from this book

> Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/marianne-the-madame-and-the-momentary-gods/disillusionment-pain-unpleasant.md)

> “Each day we investigate all premises within three blocks of the palace. Lookin’ for anarchists and revolutionaries, so they tell us, not that we’ve ever found any. Found a nest of revisionists once, but nobody cared.”
>
> “What were they revising?” she asked, truly curious.
>
> “Don’t know. Didn’t ask ’em.”

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/marianne-the-madame-and-the-momentary-gods/each-day-we-investigate.md)

> What kind of a universe would it be if we could not do small kindnesses for one another?

p. 123 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/marianne-the-madame-and-the-momentary-gods/what-kind-of-a-universe.md)