Christopher

“I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“He finds the lying comes easy enough, of course. Words are just noises in a certain order, and he can use them any way he wishes. Pigs grunt, ducks quack, and men tell lies: that is how it generally goes.”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water

“Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“the seven of them rode for two hours into country that seemed to contain nothing except itself.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove