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“Wind turns green and the Goddess smiles. Everything will be the right size.”
― Xanxa Raggatt

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war

Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war

Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost”
― Steven Moffat

“Ye be wanting to know why I go about with me face covered ... Tis to protect people from their own ignorance"

Justeen Halloran, from "The Halloriyaan", soon to be published.”
― Xanxa Symanah

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every blow he lands makes him less of a man"

Andreas Cesario, from "The Unborn Child", soon to be published.”
― Xanxa Symanah

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“Never underestimate the importance of dessert"

Andreas Cesario, from "The Unborn Child", soon to be published.”
― Xanxa Symanah

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.”
― Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“A leader leads,” Ragnar said, “and you can’t ask men to risk death if you’re not willing to risk it yourself.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

“Who are you people, really?” Valkyrie demands.
I smirk, shrinking into my humanoid form. “Do you believe in gods?”
― K.V. Wilson, Incarnate

“If ye have a choice one way or another, don’t risk it. Prepare yerself an’ then come back, stronger ‘n ever. Never pick a fight when angry; do it when ye’ve got a clear head an’ a reason to risk yer life and others. Only stand up ‘n fight when absolutely necessary, when it means saving a life rather than endangering more.”
― K.V. Wilson, Incarnate

“Why can't people love one another and still remain free?" Althea demanded suddenly.

Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tug thoughtfully at her earring. "One can love that way," she conceded regretfully. "But the price on that kind of love may be the highest of all." She strung her words together as carefully as she strung her beads. "To love another person like that, you have to admit that his life is as important as yours. Harder still, you have to admit to yourself that perhaps he has needs you cannot fill, and that you have tasks that will take you far away from him. It costs loneliness and longing and doubt and...”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”
― Kenneth Grahame

“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kiplng

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
― Isaac Asimov