Tom Combs

“Alive, nobody matters much in the long run. But dead, some men matter more than others.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one’s fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“She was dying and he was not, and that was a barrier not even love could breach.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, The Sunne In Splendour

“There are many people in this world,” Himerius says, “who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land