Flannery O'Connor said, "If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity."
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to prevent the tragedy in the first place? 89 murders at the pig farm; the deaths of Mason and Lucas Turner make 91 lives snuffed out. Kelly Shane will go home and try to recover, to reconnect with her family, but she'll never be a child again. William Hightower, who gave his leg for his country, gave the rest of himself to avenge his sister's murder. That makes 93 lives forever altered, not counting family and friends, in a small town in Sarnia, Ontario, who thought monsters didn't exist, until they learned that they spent their lives with one. And what about my team? How many more times will they be able to look into the abyss? How many more times before they won't ever recover the pieces of themselves that this job takes? [Hotch enters his apartment, pours himself a drink and raises it to his lips. He freezes as a hooded figure appears behind him with a gun in hand and turns around to see the barrel pointed at his chest.] Like I said, sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day.
GFGeorge Foyet
You should have made a deal.
Sometimes, the day just... [the screen cuts to black as a gunshot rings out] ...ends.
Karl Kraus said, "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards."
Emily Dickinson wrote, "One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."
"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
Kingman Brewster Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."
Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."
"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." Matthew 5:29
"Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you." Guru Nanak
"In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers
Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein
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