142 quotes found
“Humanity is worse than flies.”
“The dead pull the living down.”
“Every devil used to be an angel”
“Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.”
“Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.”
“I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.""What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to t...”
“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
“Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. Theres the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th...”
“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”
“He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and killed, in her heart if not with her voice. God's reply had been that due to the high volume of cal...”
“God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort ...”
“He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man ...”
“Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”
“The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warm...”
“Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.”
“In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound together by blood with a shared set of skills and tools for consolidating power and subjugating oth...”
“They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.”
“[Lou]: Im not talking about the angioplasty. I mean the stuff youre pumping into me. What is it? Something serious?[Nurse]: Oh. This is nothing. Youre not going under the knife today, so you dont g...”
“The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an or...”
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to ...”
“You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?”
“But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonge...”
“The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's c...”
“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”
