“Ill tell you now. That silence almost beat me. Its the silence that scares me. Its the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried t...”

“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”

“Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.”

“Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.”

“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.''Pride is ...”

“When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appr...”

“Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.”

“War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.”

“Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”