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" I want him to suffer in this life before he suffers in the next. I don't want him to escape that. I need him to know how it feels to have to go on living when the person love with all your soul is suffering the torments of the fires for eternity, and you can do nothing to help them, not even place so much as a single drop of cooling water upon their burning tongues. I wanted him to live with that. I wanted him to know that before he dies, for surely that is the only torment that hell itself cannot inflict upon the damned. ...when you hate that much, it is not hard to kill a man at all. "

Karen Maitland , The Gallows Curse


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Karen Maitland quote : I want him to suffer in this life before he suffers in the next. I don't want him to escape that. I need him to know how it feels to have to go on living when the person love with all your soul is suffering the torments of the fires for eternity, and you can do nothing to help them, not even place so much as a single drop of cooling water upon their burning tongues. I wanted him to live with that. I wanted him to know that before he dies, for surely that is the only torment that hell itself cannot inflict upon the damned. ...when you hate that much, it is not hard to kill a man at all.