121 quotes found
“Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.”
“What do you believe in?’ asked David.‘I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fort...”
“When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.”
“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.”
“After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.”
“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”
“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who could...”
“As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective real...”
“It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belon...”
“Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.”
“It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness yo...”
“After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.”
“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how l...”
“Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To re...”
“Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.”
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms”
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that w...”
“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”
“You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.”
“It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who refuse to act because they see no point, and th...”
