Tamara Walborn

“Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?
His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...”
― Robert Fulghum

“The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He stowed a bottle of a local rotgut called Five Island Gin—nicknamed Five Ulcer Gin—in radioman Harry Brooks’s gas mask holster. When an MP tapped Brooks’s hip to check for the mask, the bottle broke and left Brooks with a soggy leg. It was probably for the best. Louie noticed that when he drank the stuff, his chest hair spontaneously fell out. He later discovered that Five Island Gin was often used as paint thinner. After that, he stuck to beer.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption