Robin LaFevers Quotes

And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

Robin LaFevers

• Death
• Killing
• Sacraments

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• All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

  

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• And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Death
  • Killing
  • Sacraments