"I used to think this was all about good and evil,” said Rickett, “but it’s not.”“No?”“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, be...

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
~ John Connolly (author) ~












Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
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