Voilence Quotes

“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Forgiveness comes much later if at all
Sometimes after a lifetime of negotiation
With your demons
Words you could have said
Or left unsaid
Bruises you could have hidden
With a little make-up
And things would have been just fine
Until the next time”
― Nalini Priyadarshni, Doppelganger in My House

“The first lesson that tragedy teaches (and that morality plays miss) is that all violence is an attempt to achieve justice, or what the violent person perceives as justice, for himself or for whomever it is on whose behalf he is being violent [...] Thus, the attempt to achieve and maintain justice, or to undo or prevent injustice, is the one and only universal cause of violence.”
― James Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic

“Few books can be said to smell of blood, spilled guts, bodily fluids, unpardonable acts.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Secret of Evil