Shawn Samberg

“Fear of God is thrown away,” lamented Brigitta in Rome, “and in its place is a bottomless bag of money.” All the Ten Commandments, she said, had been reduced to one: “Bring hither the money.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.”
― David Guterson

“Live while you live, then die and be done with.”
― John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
― Forrest Carter, The Outlaw Josey Wales