Quatorze du Mai-Quotes

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!"
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
-- Laurens Van der Post

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
-- Ted Morgan

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First Quote and Third

Lloyd sat in his dismal little rowboat. The sun was not at its best. He barely gleaned any warmth from it. He stared at the little eyes of the fish. How could it be that this creature had been the demise of his sister? His sweet sister trying to protect this supposed endangered fish had lost her life, ironically to that very same fish. It really wasn't a fish but a transforming sea demon. Life had given his sister a love for animals and the sea demon a love for the taste of young girl.

Luckily it had also given him the ability to enjoy vengeance.

It wasn’t as hard as he thought it would be to find the sea demon.  Slitting its throat was also disappointingly easy. He had expected more from the being that had his sister for dinner.

At least it was satisfying to see the surprise in its eyes and to hear his last attempts at breathing.   Oddly it had changed back into the fish.

It was enough food to last him for the trip back home.

Second and Fourth Quote

Sorrow in your voice, belief that you are meant for solitude.

The vanity shows, with the guilt you wish to create for others.

Selfishness drips like glaringly scarlet drops on snow.

Your suffering primed on your mind. Wiping it all away with your  want

for unique wit.

Childish feelings disparaging others.

The insanity you demand from us.

It drives and drives you slowly in to an abyss.

Certainty in what you hold as your credo.