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Macbeth Macbeth by A.J. Hartley
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“To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.”
David Hewson, Macbeth
“The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.”
David Hewson, Macbeth
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.”
David Hewson, Macbeth
“Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?”
David Hewson, Macbeth
“It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
A.J. Hartley, Macbeth
“In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.”
David Hewson, Macbeth
“...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
tags: death, life, sex, war
“I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'

Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth
“Slavery comes in many guises lady. A woman should recognize that.”
A.J. Hartley, Macbeth
“Magic came from within, from turning a secret key that lurked inside, waiting for the words to set it free. The”
A.J. Hartley, Macbeth