Clay Carter

A crestfallen sidekick in an old cafe.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Every child knows that play is nobler than work.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Hurry to meet death, before your place is taken.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

From the mess emerged the meal.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

The universe will be diminished without you in it.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

We’re the safest folks in the world,” said Miss Maudie. “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

I wanted you to see something about her. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing,

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Still I drink to your health before
The gun butt raps upon the door.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

She’ll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

There is nothing that cost less than good manners.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

I suppose it’s too much to hope for; rational conduct from a balding middle-aged failure.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

Hell was now clear to behold.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

And he was as tough as a pine knot, and with the appetite of a wolf. Nothing had hurt him, and nothing could hurt him; he had come through all the suffering and deprivation unscathed.

[Clay Carter @Demonomania]

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy.