"Evil?" Womble rarely used the word in his work. It was a storybook word. Neither right nor wrong. A word made up to fill a gap in how to talk about the world when it tilted on its side spilling out more blood and pain than people could
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“He didn't think people changed much—his people anyway. Their souls had been ripped apart trying to stop what could never be stopped, and they took a fierce pride in opening old wounds just to show they could endure them again.”
― The Serpent's Sage
― The Serpent's Sage
“Whenever people wonder “What is the truth?” usually it is because the truth is just under their noses—but it would be very inconvenient to acknowledge it.”
― The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
― The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― A Man Who is Not a Man
― A Man Who is Not a Man
“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Mount Pleasant
― Mount Pleasant
“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”
― Hopscotch
― Hopscotch
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