Childhood of Jesus (book)

 Childhood ofJesus (published 2013) is a Novel by John Maxwell Coetzee, J M Coetzee a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

Quotes

 * As for your Spanish, don’t worry, persist. One day it will cease to feel like a language, it will become the way things are.
 * Alvaro chapter 2.


 * You are here to find your mother. I am here to help you.’

‘But after we find her, what are we here for?’

‘I don’t know what to say. We are here for the same reason everyone else is. We have been given a chance to live and we have accepted that chance. It is a great thing, to live. It is the greatest thing of all.’
 * Chapter 3


 * Benevolence, I must tell you, is what we keep encountering here. Everyone wishes us well, everyone is ready to be kind to us. We are positively borne along on a cloud of goodwill. But it all remains a bit abstract. Can goodwill by itself satisfy our needs? Is it...
 * Simon chapter 7