"I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family."

-- John Marston

#Brother Quotes #People Quotes #Ransom Quotes

“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”

Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.447, Penguin
“If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.”
“Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.”
“I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.”
“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
“And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.”
“Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.”

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