Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.

Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.

And so everything depends on you, Bertie. Bishop or rook. Your life or mine. Do what you believe you have to do.

...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!

There are no dots in Tee'sOr cross in eye'sThere is no connect in child neglect

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.