Carmine Hambleton > Carmine's Quotes

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Peter the pedo killer and I spent a couple of days touring pharmacies”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“The existential void is the core of our souls, shaping energy and vibration into existential form. Our fate and personality are shaped and written in DNA, so free choice is a dream until the next rebirth.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“...misery had her dwelling in my heart...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I seem to grasp at certain moments the nuance that divides bad from worse.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“It was a knockout blow - a punch so overwhelming that I didn't get back on my feet for fourteen years.”
― Henri Charrière

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover