Do you not think that God will protect us?”“ No, ” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

Philippa Gregory
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“Do you not think that God will protect us?” "No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious."

Source: Changeling

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