“And these six things: love, property, the state, war, work, and death, are the legacy of Cain, who slew his brother and whose brother's blood cried out to heaven, and the Lord spake to Cain: 'You shall be cursed upon the earth and a fugitive and a vagabond.'”
Source: Love. The Legacy of Cain
“I don't understand what you want", I say. "We're made through pain. Suffering. Through torment, blood, and tears.”
Source: An Ember in the Ashes / A Torch Against the Night / A Reaper at the Gates
“If you enjoyed the show, tell your friends. If you didn’t I trust you’ll get throat cancer and die without ever again uttering another word.”
Source: The Absolute Sandman, Volume 2
“When the voices of your past come calling you, wanting you to go back to something worse than you used to be, the only way to deal with it is to ignore those voices and press forward. That’s exactly what I intended to do.”
Source: Shift Happens
“our god, the creator of heaven and earth, is completely mad”
Source: Caim
“وَالدّهْر يَوْم لَك وَيوْم عَليك فإذا كان لَك فَلا تَبطر وَإذا كان عَليك فاصْبر فَبِكليهما تمْتَحَن.”
“When it comes to you, against my better judgment and my will, I find myself promising things I never thought I could promise anyone.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“How bad will it hurt?" I ask suddenly as Cain pulls the car onto the road to head back to my house.
"How bad will what hurt?"
"The spankings, the torture, all the ways you want to punish me."
"I'm not a sadist, Evan. I don't get off on hurting women."
"So it won't hurt?"
"Oh, it will, but you'll love the way it hurts," he says, and as his words fall upon my ears in a harmony of exhilaration and foreboding, I think I'm beginning to understand.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
"Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain."
I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God....”
Source: King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography – The Riveting, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Young Adult Coming-of-Age Memoir
“Tease me like that again, and I'll put you over my knee," Cain threatens, and my poor impulse control kicks into overdrive.
"I'm not teasing.”
Source: A Jade's Trick