Christopher

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“In his heart, hope—that indestructible weed of the human heart—had begun to bloom again.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“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

“The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water