“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”
— John Green, book Looking for Alaska
Chip "the Colonel" Martin, p. 71
Looking for Alaska (2005)
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