When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
There was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain’t no luck in it.
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he’d taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
Last words are only words.
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
If you break little promises, you’ll break big ones.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
You say you can’t? Then don’t do it. That’s all.
To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.
There is no greater monster than reason.