“Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.”
“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”
“Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.”
“Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.”
“Injustice always captures the attention of the young,’ she said. ‘But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can’t fix until we no longer see injustice at all.”
“You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry”
“Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.
Why do you want to die?
I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.”
“Happily, you don’t know how to find me. If you did, I’ve no doubt, you would try to bribe me to finish the story. I know how you are. I know how I am, too. I am very susceptible to bribes. As you’ve probably noticed, I have no self-control whatsoever. I like chocolate best. But I also have a fondness for cheese.”
“The sound of his hard-soled shoes on the street faltered. “You live in a church?” My eyes narrowed. “Yeah. But I don’t sleep with voodoo dolls.” “Huh?” “Never mind.”
“The truth was, I suppose, that a man of so small an income, could not afford to sport such a lustrous face and a lustrous coat at one and the same time.”
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