Appalachian-fiction Quote by Charles Dodd White

“His eyes burned with hate and malice and everything vile in the man’s heart. If you could pull back his skin, you’d find Cain…

— Thomas S. Flowers

“Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!”

— Charles Baudelaire

“WE THINK OF CAIN AS THE ONE WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER, but who else was around to kill? They were the first two born.…

— David Vann

“And he who lieth there was childless. I have dried the fountain of gentle race.. -Cain”

— George Gordon Byron

“You perceive," he said, "that you have made continual progress. Cain did his murder with a club; the Hebrews did their murders with javelins…

— Mark Twain

“Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept…

— T. H. White

Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

“The tyrant-father of Heaven, the one who created, hated and drove out the first woman, yoked men with a horrible curse, far worse than…

— R.S. Belcher

“He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t let it…

— Charles Martin

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach…

— Charles Henry Mackintosh

“I’m beginning to believe that the depths to which a woman could fall for Cain are endless. To a deep, dark, infinite pit with…

— K.A. Tucker

“I think it is notable in this connection that it is not Adam but the Lord who rebukes Cain.”

— Marilynne Robinson