13 quotes found
“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”
“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”
“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”
“Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....”
“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”
“The dead werent scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.”
“Fear and bigotry dont need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
“Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen theyre gone.”
“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
“That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.”
“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
“The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.”