Wade

“There remained a hole drilled through his heart.”
― Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest

“What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers—there are only questions.”
― Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest

“life.”
― Tony Hillerman, The First Eagle

“By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the mother converted. Those were dark years still, and if expediency required it, she may have swallowed her Protestant convictions to buy the boy a decent education. Give the Jesuits his soul, she may have reasoned, and they will give him a brain. Or perhaps she sensed in her son from early on the mercurial nature that later ruled his life, and she determined to subordinate him to a stronger religious discipline than was offered by the easy-going Protestants. If so, she was wise.”
― John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim