The Sarvàn Quotes

“I’ve given my life to whoring and gambling. It was a good damn ride”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“The only difference between a just killer and a murderer has nothing to do with god or country or some legal definition. It is based solely on how much you, as an individual, like them. Nothing more. Nothing less.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“Then his thoughts withdrew, replaced with the thrashing, dead-minded panic of a mackerel ripped from the sea.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“If not, there was always the solace of a rope. The cabin was in disrepair.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“But violence begot violence as right had blended into wrong in his slow spiral down the drain of damnation.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“Deep gouges shone dark against the bare white of broken bones.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“A cold breeze swept in from the north. The scent it carried with it transported him back to his short time spent behind the trenches. On one evening he had been charged with hauling away the carts of the dead recovered from No Man’s Land. He remembered the putrid odor of soured bowels and the metallic tang of blood. It was the stink of death.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“It was a small dog with a long coat of fur that curled out wildly in every direction.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“Nae. I dinnae make it long afore I was back to the bloody business.” He belched again and turned to regard Blackwood with bloodshot eyes. “That’s the dark secret they never tell you, lad. There’s a thrill in the fight like no other. You know that well enough by now yourself, I’m sure. It’s a sickness only the brave and the wicked contract. A hapless need for the violence of it. But if you chase that thrill long enough, you’ll never be able to let it go. Take it from an old man: bow out while you’ve still got it in you to find some happiness among the living.”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“Only in her absence could he see clearly that there could be no positive outcome for such a romance —”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn

“The only difference between a just killer and a murderer has nothing to do with god or country or some legal definition. It is based solely on how much you”
― Douglass Hoover, The Sarvàn