“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
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“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell," Mr. Helm had seen her stand long hours gazing into the garden, as though what she saw bewitched her. ("When I was a girl," she had once told a friend, "I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things, and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough...")”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
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