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Geoffrey Alliburton is a character in Paul Sheldon’s Misery series. He is hopelessly in love with Misery Chastain and the true father of her child, which complicates his close friendship with her husband, Ian Carmichael. When Annie forces Paul to write Misery’s Return, Geoffrey and Mrs. Ramage are the ones who discover that Misery has been buried alive, and thereafter Geoffrey becomes the novel’s hero. He occasionally functions as Paul’s voice—at the end of Misery’s Return, he remarks that he has no desire to live under the rule of an insane god, which is how Paul feels after suffering under Annie’s “care.”
Geoffrey Alliburton Quotes in Misery
The Misery quotes below are all either spoken by Geoffrey Alliburton or refer to Geoffrey Alliburton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3, Chapters 34-48
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But his ideas about God—like his ideas about so many things, had changed. They had changed in Africa. In Africa, he had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel—they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.
If his Misery were truly dead, as he had come to fear, he intended to go up on the foredeck and throw himself over the rail. He had always known and accepted the fact that the gods were hard; he had no desire, however, to live in a world where the gods were insane.
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Geoffrey Alliburton Quotes in Misery
The Misery quotes below are all either spoken by Geoffrey Alliburton or refer to Geoffrey Alliburton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 3, Chapters 34-48
Quotes
But his ideas about God—like his ideas about so many things, had changed. They had changed in Africa. In Africa, he had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel—they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.
If his Misery were truly dead, as he had come to fear, he intended to go up on the foredeck and throw himself over the rail. He had always known and accepted the fact that the gods were hard; he had no desire, however, to live in a world where the gods were insane.
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