Straightforward Metaphysics

She turns around and comes over to me. It’s my guess that this proximity is the closest she ever comes to touching another human being.
“Do you believe,” she asks.
“I don’t know whether I believe in your God.”
“That doesn’t matter. You believe in a Supreme Being?”
“There are mornings when I don’t even believe in myself.”
She laughs for the second time that day. Then she turns around and walks over toward her panoramic view

From one of my favourite novels, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, (page 79), by Danish writer Peter Høeg. Translated into English by Tiina Nunnally. I like this novel and this part especially because it so concretely deals with human relationship with divinity and metaphysics. Straightforward philosophy, far from academic jargon.