Barbara Smith

“The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Death is a mercy compared to the agony I have caused."
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― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West