We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

Read, read read. Read everything.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.