Caleb Carr Quotes

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Each murder is one too many.

Reprisals are an exception to the general rule of equity, that an innocent person ought not to suffer for the guilty.

They are spinning and people are dying.

The Annual Shame

If you follow this policy you're going to have the deaths of some brave people on your conscience.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

What did I do to deserve this?

I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

There are even some radical leftists who look at it as that but then go further and say, "Because we have been so exclusionary and because it's been so unfair that America has been so rich, it's so unfair that America has been this one place in the world, it's not because of us, and we deserve to pay a price."

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!