These are the epigraphs for John Updike's novel Terrorist (2006)
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And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
And the Lord said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
–Jonah 4:3-4
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the sense.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Of Love and Other Demons
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