Maxwell > Maxwell's Quotes

“Later, when questioned, he would struggle to articulate how he'd felt with the dog-headed thing within his hands. But he did offer, to anyone to whom he told his story, that he'd never felt as insignificant. Tiny, an irrelevant witness and a mere speck upon a great tide of time that surged ever forward. A tide upon which he too would be extinguished: the spark of all he was doused in less than a cosmic moment, just as the mind that had occupied the skull in his bag had been extinguished so many years before.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill

“The worthy ones, the secrets of consequence, swallow up the tongues of the living until they sleep together in the grave. Unseen forces, nevertheless they twist and mold unsuspecting lives, bruise and batter bewildered souls. Omerta -- what happens in the "family" stays in the family. Powerful, percolating, persistent, these insidious secrets are the ones I fear.”
― Karen Tintori, Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family