James

“To watch these things issuing from the otherwise mute pastoral morning is a man at the barn door. He is small, unclean, unshaven. He moves in the dry chaff among the dust and slats of sunlight with a constrained truculence. Saxon and Celtic bloods. A child of God much like yourself perhaps. Wasps pass through the laddered light from the barnslats in a succession of strobic moments, gold and trembling between black and black, like fireflies in the serried upper gloom.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

“The world is not “my idea,” as Schopenhauer called it; it is a stern reality of which you and I are passing spawns.”
― Will Durant, Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

“He felt that anything he wanted ought to be his no matter what.”
― Jeff Guinn, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

“...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.”
― Robert A. Johnson, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology