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“There’s language to the woods and it’s speaking to those capable of listening, to ears taught to decode meanings mild or malignant. Geese flying, bees buzzing. Howl of a wolf, height of the clouds, face of the moon, colour of the night and the morning sky, movement of game, snowfall heavy or light — things mostly lost on most people. Where others heard the winds in the maples, the trapper smelled the sap on the breeze. A wind veered northerly and where another might think the evening cold, he knew frost was coming early and the temperatures would stay cold for a week and the bears would feed heavily before the berry bushes died and the deer would be more active at dusk, at dawn. Inflections of the forest, cadence of the wilderness, language of the North.”
― Tom Stewart

“He had always killed before just like a mechanic tightens a bolt; no attachments, with a trigger that responded perfectly to his command.”
― Eric Redmon, Cold Silence of Deception

“Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.”
― Scott Hahn, The Fourth Cup: Unveiling the Mystery of the Last Supper and the Cross

“Leaphorn had found that listening carefully to lies is sometimes very revealing of the truth.”
― Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead

“Anyone who leaves home always carries a piece of it with them.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“You took up a gun, your world could turn upside down in a heartbeat. A bank. A gas station. A patrol, the other side of the world. Or a robbery, the fields of Texas. You stepped off, the fall could be an inch, a mile - unending. Nobody to save you, nobody there.”
― John Stonehouse, An American Outlaw

“He knew there was no magic to wipe clean the slate of memory. You just learned how to move on.”
― William Kent Krueger, Lightning Strike

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't want to survive, I want to live.”
― Solomon Northup

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“That was the thing about second chances—it was impossible to know what was real or what wasn’t; every act of forgiveness was a leap of faith.”
― Attica Locke, Heaven, My Home

“The word is not just a sound; it is a person and a presence. God is the eternal Word, the Logos.”
― Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

“The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Tragedy sort of works this way: Once it snakes its way in, it cuts down all your defenses and allows its brethren easy access to feed.”
― Harlan Coben, The Innocent

“Regret is so much harder to live with than failure,”
― Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess

“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“You need the three Gs.” Donna had a colorful vocabulary, but Kate hadn’t heard this one before. “What’re the three Gs?”
“A guy, a gun, or a German shepherd. Preferably all three.”
― Christopher Greyson, One Little Lie

“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“isn’t impossible to heal from that, but it leaves scars. It changes the way you look at people, how far you can trust or let people in. It changes your habits, even your desires and dreams.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Summer Children

“There could be no freedom, no justice without sacrifice. Hadn’t all the great revolutions in history been born from people like him, wronged and thirsty for freedom and peace?”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“To feel nothing is more painful than to feel pain.”
― Blake Banner, Two Bare Arms

“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The world, it seemed, had been busy playing chess, While I had played checkers . . . and ignored the rest.”
― Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess

“Relationships break down and many people live their days alone and for a lot of unions that do last not all the people are always so happy. Love is not guaranteed.”
― Tom Stewart

“I try to limit my exposure to politicians to a bare minimum; they trigger my hypocrite allergy.”
― David Rosenfelt, Best in Snow

“(H)e had learned the primary rule about danger. It would come if it would come. You could try to be ready for it, you could plan on it, you could even expect it, but it would come when it wanted to come.”
― Gary Paulsen, Tucket's Gold

“The natives have a way of putting it themselves: “the real world behind this one,” they call it, suggesting that what we see and understand of the surface world is but a façade, which they are capable of navigating beyond. And so it is that in living among them, such things as shape-shifters, talking bears, men turning into birds and flying, all seem somehow plausible.”
― Jim Fergus, The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill