“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.” LoveLifeHeartChildrenDoneGodKidsPainLeftForeverFourDamageTrueChildKillUndoneNeverThingsHandDamagedLastPaulEverHoffmanForty Nine Book:The Last Four Things Source: The Last Four Things
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?” PeopleMenWorldLifeHeartArtDeathDesireEvilLeftDivineClothesManGreatTrueStoryChildKillGameCruelHandLastPaulMattersCaleHoffmanTomasToySpareAmuseBoscoInstructExterminateDerfend Book:The Last Four Things Source: The Last Four Things
“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.” PeopleWorldLoveHeartSoulReasonGodPainLeftEasyFourEasierDestructionQuoteManUnderstandPriceHandFraseLastPaulAgainstFingerPreferCaleHoffmanScratchTomasEnglishmanEnglish QuoteGash Book:The Last Four Things Source: The Last Four Things
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.” LoveHeartSoulGodPainHopeLeftPowerImpossibleDivineEyesUnderstandAdorationGive UpHearHandUnendurableHopelesslyEndurable Book:The Left Hand of God Source: The Left Hand of God
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...” LoveHeartSoulGodPainEvilFearSecretPathFireGoodChosenBitterReasonableLoverAdoreBadRefinementDelicacySaveHandHammeredPaulBeatShapePartUnawareNeckCaleHoffmanSwanTomasDreadfulArbellLaft Book:The Left Hand of God Source: The Left Hand of God