The King's Justice Quotes

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― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall—the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“But we must resist the temptation to become cynical and passive—despite the current ugliness, destruction, and devastation.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“The Talmud says, If someone is sick or in need and you can take a sixtieth of their pain, that’s goodness.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“Every time we as a society kill someone officially, we become more barbaric.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“a crime creates a debt, the criminal becomes a debtor, the victim his creditor, whose compensation is the particular pleasure of bearing witness to punishment.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“she thought she could bury her rage, but didn’t know it was a seed?”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“We’re taught to bottle it up, to build a dam, to keep silent.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“You never truly know people, do you? Like we’re all wearing masks.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“good people tend not to be suspicious of others. They just can’t envision anyone doing things they’re incapable of doing themselves.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice

“Without music, life would be a mistake.’ ”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The King's Justice