Acts of violence Quote by Stephen A. Reger

“It was most disturbing to be looked at by so many people all at once, or at any rate by more people than one…

— Susan Cooper

“People stuck by others for years and years, in the face of all odds, and it should be relief, not disbelief, that one felt…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“It wasn’t the violence that trapped him. It was the feeling that he had finally become someone worth noticing.”

— Valon G

“Nobody says the words anymore, but somehow the violence still remains.”

— Brendan Kiely

“They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.”

— Haidji

“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable…

— Albert Camus

“But hadn’t they all changed? Life happened without permission, and it swept everyone along in its violent wake.”

— Evelyn Skye

“Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.”

— Mark Twain

“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.”

— Nancy Naigle