And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

If you harm a horse do you make him better or worse?""Worse.

I’m rewarded, uh, I mean punished, with a slap to my backside.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.