Jamie

“They either didn’t admit to or didn’t deal with the fact that whatever you make your God Value, you will always be willing, at some point, to bargain away human life in order to get closer to it. Worshipping some supernatural God, some abstract principle, some bottomless desire, when pursued long enough, will always result in giving up your own humanity or the humanity of others in order to achieve the aims of that worship. And what was supposed to save you from suffering then plunges you back into suffering. The cycle of hope-destruction begins anew.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Them that can't be killed by knives or bullets usually break their necks falling off a porch or something.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“What lives in folk memory is truer than how some artsy poet says it. In folk memory evil always predates good.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked

“Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy was just another enemy.”
― Kwame Mbalia, Last Gate of the Emperor