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“He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and so ultimately from himself. He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men’s hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“while the rain fell by the will of God evil chose its own hour and that those whom it sought out were perhaps not entirely lacking of some certain darkness in themselves.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“would much rather do battle with a sworn enemy than with an enemy who finds expediency in posing as a friend.”
― Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist

“Religious wars are no fun. The faculty of reasoning that permitted surrender did not apply in such instances.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates