The Four Stages of Cruelty Quotes

“I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.”
― Keith Hollihan, The Four Stages of Cruelty

“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.”
― Keith Hollihan, The Four Stages of Cruelty

“How do evil people find the strength to do good?”
― Keith Hollihan, The Four Stages of Cruelty

“She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.”
― Keith Hollihan, The Four Stages of Cruelty

“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
― Keith Hollihan, The Four Stages of Cruelty