288 quotes found
“...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.”
“Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn’t matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.”
“It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words ...”
“My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.”
“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning our life held a joy and amazement ...”
“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
“Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.”
“Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
