The Legend of Devil's Creek Quotes

“Love and a sense of security are, of course, foundations for our psychological development.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

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― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“And his sense of futility was, in turn, resurrecting the terrible despair he’d felt toward the end of his days in the service. A despair that, left unchecked, would sever the last threads of hope holding together the fragments of his tortured soul, destroying him.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“If our minds evolve in an environment over which we have no sense of security, no control, we are left with often permanent feelings of weakness, powerlessness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“his resurgent feelings of hopelessness and despair grew, nudging him ever closer to what he perceived was the point at which a person’s mind must simply give up. An invisible frontier of oblivion. He knew it was close.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Let us love one another,” it read, “because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God for God is love.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.’ Matthew 5:44 and 45,”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Love and a sense of security are, of course, foundations for our psychological development. The food, water, and oxygen we need to grow a healthy self-image. If we don’t receive adequate unconditional love as children, especially during our first five years, we carry that deficiency with us for the rest of our lives, seeing it manifest itself in profound emotional problems and psychological defects. If our minds evolve in an environment over which we have no sense of security, no control, we are left with often permanent feelings of weakness, powerlessness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“as a race, we have these wonderfully capable brains that provide us with the amazing gift of intelligence, right? The powers of reason and imagination. The ability to dream. But with these great things comes the ultimate horror—the terrible knowledge that we are all, as an absolute certainty, someday going to die. We’re probably the only creature on earth burdened with this awareness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Fear that death is really the end. That there is nothing else. That death encompasses the inescapable and absolute termination of our existence. A terrifying thought. One that scares us like no other.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek