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"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
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"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."

"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."

"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"

"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."
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"I'm a holiday Christian at best and I'd never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid's closet."

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

"Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life."

"Snow is both our best friend and worst enemy. Best friend because it shows us in a concrete form the paths other have taken to get where they are. Worst enemy because it will tell such tales of us if we chance upon it. I find poetry in snow that cannot be resisted. In a way, it is the closest to time travel most civilians will ever manage."

"They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities."

"They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children."

"There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky."

"I don't think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I'd want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway."

"Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide."
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