Sacred-and-profane Quote by Max Gladstone

“It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent…

— Thomas Wolfe

“Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but…

— Victor Hugo

“... a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The most sacred place in the world is your mind. Guard it ferociously.”

— Rick Beneteau

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”

— Mary MacLane

“And a severe and most grievous wound occurred upon the men who had the character of the beast, and upon those who adored the…

— The Biblescript

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“An evil beast of taunting and teasing, attack and retreat.”

— Portia Da Costa

“The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Still, that was the city, a great big filthy breeding-place for vermin – animal and human.”

— James Herbert

“was going to fight to keep the elusive Horde King as my own. Every beauty needed a beast, and he was mine.”

— Amelia Hutchins