But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

Death must exist for life to have meaning.

Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized to the death... that it feels normal. Commonplace.

There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. "...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.