They've had a similar conversation once, but it was more about 'do you believe...' And Lee's answer had been, 'I think so, but I don't know why.' The belief in God goes against everything she knows about logic and reason, and Lee is somebody who places enormous value in both; it's why she likes maths so much, it's structured, predictable, and offers clear answers. She's been told an instinctive belief in a higher power is just primitive superstition and brainwashing by the same kind of people who unthinkingly appropriate Buddhist belief.
She shuffles forward, pressed closely to him, her legs twining around his. "I don't know. I don't think I am smart enough for this. Sometimes I think I feel Him, in places very quiet, very clear — a stillness, a bit — there was a place like this in France, by Lyon. But it's not like — when people say, 'oh, God is nature, God is everything, God is a feeling.' This I don't understand. How He can be everything, but also one thing, a specific thing?"