Alison Lee
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To even attempt to discuss the situation made Clint feel as if he were climbing up a hill made of pennies.
“There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Into Thin Air
― Into Thin Air
“I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”
― Insurgent
― Insurgent
“Because dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.”
― Song of Susannah
― Song of Susannah
“Do you believe in evil, Meg? As a force external to man?” “Like the devil?” “Yes. Or a force that can inhabit people. Turn them into monsters.” “It’s an interesting question. Mostly I take the Jungian view that we create the idea of monsters in order to externalize the bad that potentially lurks within us all, and we call this monster a devil, or beast, so we can examine it objectively, without having to see the beast in our own eyes when we look into the mirror.”
― In the Waning Light
― In the Waning Light
“His genius was betrayed by lofty and indomitable traits of character which could not yield or compromise. And so his life was a tragedy of inconsequence”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
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