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He chooses a book he’s never read by an author he trusts: Cry Hard, Cry Fast by John D. MacDonald.
many people lead hard lives, lonely and unappreciated, and that an unexpected, large gratuity makes them feel special and helps them to hold fast to a belief in the existence of kindness and meaning in a world that seems to be growing ever more barbarous and meaningless year by year.
“There’s terrible darkness in the human heart,” the girl says, “and good people need to have the courage to stand against it, or there won’t be a safe place anywhere.”
“Dogs are the best. They love so easy, they don’t know evil, they never lie. They’d die for you.”
“Tenderness is false mercy. It’s easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength, courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.”
“The tender-hearted love everyone they’ve never met because it costs them nothing. It’s such a weak love that it isn’t love at all. They pave the way for evil. But you already know that.”
Can a nation surrender its freedom and a civil society to a rabid ideology in just two short years?
“Those with eyes to see, let them see,” Nameless says. “Those with ears to hear, let them hear.”
“That’s the tragedy of prophets. They never look like what they are, so no one believes them until it’s too late.”
Faith in an ideology is faith in nothing, worship of the void by specimens as empty as this creep.
