By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children...

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting...

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I’ll introduce you.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one’s house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Salcombe Hardy groaned: “How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother’s knee.

You’re murderers,” she told the stunned crowd. “You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you’ve just got me. And I’m a curse.

At the time of the murder, I had an airtight alibi: I spent the night in a Ziploc bag.

I visited Seven Sisters Inn, and all I got was a gun pulled on me. But that’s OK, because I brought a spare pair of underwear. Oddly, I didn’t find the man who stuck a...

The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use this to kill people. What better way to celebrate than that?

Being sociable is a skill you can learn. It’s like throwing a spiral, riding a bicycle, or murdering your clone’s lover, who also happens to be your girlfriend.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

A traditional doctor gets paid to push pills, vaccinate, radiate, and basically exterminate people. No different than a contract killer—except the hit man is more honest, as he doesn’t claim to be helping humanity. Holistic...

To take another person’s life for personal gain is the most selfish act imaginable. Especially when that other person is your clone.

Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough...

Apparently, we’re all in the frame,” I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead – as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and...

What killed people wasn’t a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the...

SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF

In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” – Stephanie Carovella

But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is the plain language of the story,) cannot be told by a parent to...

How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.

It could have been a thief or a murderer. I considered crying out. A thief would run away, but a murderer would murder me. On the other hand, the murderer would probably murder me if...

The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. “I must have your promise, Coach, that you won’t hurt her.” Dan: “I won’t.” Viktor: “You...

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. (“X”)

I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur’d. From whence I concluded, (as I told him) that he had never read over the Gospells; truly he...

‘If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every...

Here’s a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life – possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his...

I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed...

I’m thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome

If there are two witnesses to a murder, you and the guy you killed, I’d say your secret is safe. I won’t say nothing to nobody.

Who are you and why are you here?”I’m here to kill you.”Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

He was born after me, and he died before me. I gave him life, and I killed him. He was an idea, and considerably harder to stab than grandpa.

La massa aizzata si forma in vista di una meta velocemente raggiungibile. La meta le è nota, precisamente designata e vicina. Essa persegue il suo scopo, è impossibile distoglierla. Propone di uccidere e sa chi...

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a...

She was learning that being with Slade was like riding a roller coaster. Good news one minute and bad news the next. She could only imagine what this restaurant must be like.

He expects us to kill him,” Palomides said to Dinadan.”Some people are so demanding,” Dinadan replied. “Considering we’ve only just met, I mean.

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Well, as to that, all I’ll say is, you can’t take out a fellow’s heart before he’s ready to give it up.

Cory wondered if maybe some people were better off dead. When you’re dead you don’t have to face the horrors of life, whether it’s striving to be the best, dealing with something bad you or...

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

That sounds weird: “kill yourself.” It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

Remember how it feels, Silent One. That murderous rage, and how it makes your blood boil. Remember, and let it carry you the rest of the way—only, learn to freeze it, as well, because the...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

Ah. And then you kill him.””No,” Arkwright replied patiently. “We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{…}

One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead… I don’t make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp,...