Darragh Palmer

“Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming--"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Just regret it; don't be ashamed”
― William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees