The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
Show a man a target he can strike back against, and you lend him a footing. Attack him with inexplicable night sounds, will-o'-the-wisps, macabre scarecrows by the sides of train tracks, incite the stuff of his own nightmares, and the suggestive vagueness of it alone could send him reeling into lunacy.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
There is no religion higher than the truth.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
Better to lose your life in defense of its sanctity than to turn tail and live out what remained of one's allotted days as a beaten dog.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
I'll acquaint you with the first ironclad rule of the enormously wealthy: Never spend one's own money.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
It's a good deal easier to resist the first step on the road to ruin than any of the thousand that inevitably follow.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
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