"...And you, you better run because I'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me." - Samantha Young, Blood Will Tell
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Tohya groaned as he resisted the urge to bury his head beneath his pillo
By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? - Isaiah 53:8* * * *The Starlight’
"As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp." - Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone* * * *
"Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, till all around him desolation rings. And all the demons in the outer dark look on amazed and recognise that vengeance is the business of a man." - Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind* * * *
You trample on the poor and force him to give you grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them. Though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine. - Amos 5:11* * * *Ri
"Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try." - Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer* * * *Tohya T
"If you feel it, if you really feel it, then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go." - Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer* * * *
"Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!" - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo* * * *
"Vengeance is one of life's greatest motivators." - K.S Brooks, Lust for Danger* * * *July 2009, Aoyama Cemetery