Provocative Dark Subject Matter Quotes

“This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“And I’ll tell you something for nothing. She mends like a motherfucker! All provocative and sensual and full of agonisingly exquisite scars. She has that strain of devilry and high-jinks that ill-advised and irrational men flee from …. And return to when it’s too late”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!”
― Lorene Stunson Hill, To Dance with Ugly People