Allan McDougall

“Wasn’t it abominable to pardon sin on the grounds of some kind of diminished responsibility? Depravity, perversion, violence – was no one at fault for those things? Did no one scheme?”
― Andrew Michael Hurley, Saltwash

“In such fortunate moments as I fall asleep I know beyond doubt what the real center of my own life is, that time that is past and lost and yet is permanent, the enduring moment, the heart of warmth.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“And, you know what, every time you unsnap a bra and feel a pair of strange new breasts tumbling out warm against you, you feel immortal.”
― John Niven, Straight White Male

“There are pockmarks where the bullets went through. It’s said their blood was the first graffiti to paint the walls. Blood is the strongest ink. You can’t erase what’s written in blood, ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead