“Everyone knows,” the guide threw back over his shoulder. “They’re just too frightened to say or do anything about it.”

Steven A McKay, Knight of the Cross: A Knights Hospitaller Novella

Hermetic quote McKay Cross frightened

Consider also:

  1. “Everyone knows”
  2. “Whatever it is, I can’t say, for I’ve never seen it and anyone who has is sent insane.”
  3. “Father Vitus’s tale seemed too incredible to be true. Surely it was nothing more than the ravings of a few superstitious, uneducated villagers”
  4. “I give you my word as a Christian: when we go in we’ll treat the place with the respect it deserves.”
  5. “Just your average bespectacled, curvy six-foot tall librarian with a mean smile and a meaner tat of an orchid mantis snaking up her right shoulder.”