- Karellen: Whenever you summon God, you want comfort... yet the very idea of him makes you confused and afraid. He is a stick you feel you must lean on. But the stick burns.
- Peretta Jones: You will never take away my faith.
- Karellen: All the world's religions cannot be right Paretta, you know that. Your faith, beautiful with poetry, is beautiful. But there is no place for it now.
- Peretta Jones: You deceived us.
- Karellen: No. You have deceived yourselves.