Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things Quotes
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.
Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.