You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes, or even that you met one, and a year ain’t passed, you’re liable to change to one yourself.

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.