Barbara Smith

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Like so much of what she said about herself, it was both a joke and not a joke.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“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

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