Wormwood/Quotes

"No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it." -Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it." -Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter." -Revelations 8:11

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord." -Plutarch

"Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue." -Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal." ―Neil Gaiman