Quotes / Amnesiac God

The word was Hebrew, a Hebrew root word. And the Divine Name itself came from that word. He felt a vast a terrible awe; he felt afraid.

"Fear not," Zina said quietly.

"I am afraid," Emmanuel said, "because for a moment I remembered." Knew, he thought, who I am.

But he forgot again. By the time he and the girl had gone outside into the yard he no longer knew.

—The Divine Invasion