Gudrun

“Haints, Hot Steams, incantations, secret signs had vanished with our years as mist with sunrise.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the horrible. In the name of philanthropy, imbecile criminologists reduce the punishment, and inept moralists the crime, and what is more they reduce the crime only in order to reduce the punishment. Yet the crimes of extreme civilization are undoubtedly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism, by virtue of their refinement, of the corruption they imply and of their superior degree of intellectualism. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques

“The police called it choking, but I called it a two-handed neck hug. That’s how I knew she really loved me.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill