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And there’s a sixty-year-old woman, who’s teaching everyone how to knit, and…”
“That peril, suffering, and fear prove life is a squalid struggle with no point, since it always ends in loss. He thinks—and you’ve said so too, Colin—that it proves if there is a God, he’s a sadistic war criminal, a bystander who watches while children drown. But that’s not what it proves. What it proves is that acts of love and sacrifice have real value—that they’re the only currency that matters.”
― King Sorrow
― King Sorrow
“Lots of people, they only get to be monsters one night of the year... Which is a real shame. It's much more fun when you make it a way of life.”
― King Sorrow
― King Sorrow
“Your mistake,' King Sorrow said from Donna's mouth, his voice a good-humored, reverberating rumble, 'was believing you had any power to begin with... You want to know where I was born? I hatched in the cauldron of Mount Hekla, five thousand years before Christ. Upon my birth, the volcano erupted and choked the world with so much darkness and ash your ancestors, a gang of pitiful and incestuous monkeys, believed the time of judgment was at hand. And they were right, mate. It's been a time of judgment every since... and I am the judge.”
― King Sorrow
― King Sorrow
“You're a monster.'
'Oh, now,' said King Sorrow from somewhere deep in the blackness of a bathroom. 'That's not fair to monsters, is it? I would've bit you in two by now, put you out of your misery, if it was up to the likes of me. You want some real cruelty done, you need a human, mate.”
― King Sorrow
'Oh, now,' said King Sorrow from somewhere deep in the blackness of a bathroom. 'That's not fair to monsters, is it? I would've bit you in two by now, put you out of your misery, if it was up to the likes of me. You want some real cruelty done, you need a human, mate.”
― King Sorrow
“Don't try and pretend you're a nice guy... And don't imagine you can manipulate me. I have a PhD in psychology. I know every trick in the book.'
'If you think empathy is a trick, then I'm even more sorry for you.”
― King Sorrow
'If you think empathy is a trick, then I'm even more sorry for you.”
― King Sorrow
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