121 quotes found
“Theres no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”
“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy?”
“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”
“The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as...”
“What do they be teaching the young these days? I declare, they think more on machines and formulas than they do on the true knowledge of the world. They blow things up, and call it progress. They k...”
“But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.”
“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”
“And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had taken away his brother's soul.”
“The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, a...”
“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”
“I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.”
“In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a caf in Santa Rosa called Galileos.”
“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there".”
“Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy -- the joy of the man who know ...”
“Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.”
“Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.”
“Im suddenly not hungry, Shane, said, his face ashen. Noah, you go get the note. Be careful not to touch anything else. Dont step in the blood.”
“The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them theyre not seeing what they think theyre seeing.”
“It's never too late to achieve your dreams”
“Across the rectory's east lawn, through a blizzard of flying leaves, something long and thin was flapping in the wind. A ragged figure in a white nightgown hanging lifelessly from the trees.”
