“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

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“Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother.”

Hesiod book Works and Days

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 825.

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lectures on Literature

Source: Lectures on Literature

“Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.”

John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet

"What it Means to be a Human Being" Speech (2001)

“He said to me, "It will always be difficult, but if you cry like this every time, you will die of heartbreak. Just know it is enough sometimes to know it is difficult."”

Chris Abani (1966) Nigerian author

Quoting a former child soldier who held his hand over a goat's eyes while Abani, aged 13, killed it
"Chris Abani muses on humanity," dotSUB (2008-11-13)
TED Africa Conference (2008)