Clearing Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

“He bathed in icy water and scrubbed and scratched his body with a block of pumice stone, and the pain of his scraping seemed…

— John Steinbeck

“But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero…

— Washington Irving

“From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause,…

— Anonymous

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others.…

— Neil Gaiman

“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife, a peripheral…

— Sarah Winman

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

— Daisy Ashford

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more…

— Joseph Addison

“His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled with his beautiful, twisted lips and she…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

— Saint Ignatius