

“Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself the object of jeers, condemnation, rejection. Human speech for him always meant mockery and curses. As he grew older he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught it. He had acquired the general viciousness. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.”
― Notre-Dame de Paris
― Notre-Dame de Paris

“Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.”
― The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
― The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring

“And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.”
― The Fall
― The Fall

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