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“I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserte...”
“As I grow ever closer to the end of my time, I look back at this life and tell you that the only thing I would wish to give up is the regret I've carried in my heart for all these years. At long la...”
“It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!”
“Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.”
“As sorry as I feel for myself, I feel even sorrier for her. I know she's afraid of staying and equally as frightened of going. Just as this land is a part of me, this house is a part of her. Sellin...”
“Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.”
“He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as gre...”
“Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.”
“Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.”
“A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.”
“A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.”
“It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.”
“You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.”
“Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.”
“Then the vulture swooped down and away, racing the LeTort spring to the Conodoguinet Creek from there to the Susquehanna river and from there to the sea. Same river my ancestors took to reach the p...”
“What to do now, Father? I am going to die like a killer, and I do not even remember killing.You can pray, my son. You are in the hands of God now, said the good priest.”
“Up and up they went, still a cable's length apart; but slowly, for the ape was footsore and despondent. As for Stephen, by the sixth-hundred step his calves and thighs were ready to burst, and at e...”
“What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontns execution witnesses on January 7, 1916”
“There is always hope for a reprieve, my friend, Stielow said. You have to get the governor to pardon you if the courts fail on you. This is an unlikely thing, although possible. The last thing you ...”
“Antonio looked down, silent, as Shillitoni kept talking. There he was, among cold-blooded killers, talking to a gangster. A much different picture than a year prior.Cant trust priests, cant trust c...”
