Laurine Justason > Laurine's Quotes

“I screamed at them all to leave me alone, begged for their mercy, but they feasted until I was picked clean like a carrion would.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“Usually I’m asked to solve a case that’s definitely real. Your distress is genuine, however, so I’ll see what I can find out, but I must warn you that I can’t be sure of success. A dream isn’t tangible evidence, after all.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“If we lose our optimism, we lose our greatest power to make things better.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“Phil, we're the laughing stock of the nation,"
    said Hobbs Creek mayor to police chief, "We
    have a cop who faints at the sight of blood!”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“Whatever fortune or misfortune awaits in the subsequent reincarnations, a purgatory by definition does not last forever. We will be forced to either go backward to the Amish way of life devoid of technology or move forward to a transhumanist world embracing technology.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“I will remember you in the morning and in the evening, every day until I close my eyes forever. I forgive your every harsh thought of me and the curses you may hurl at my name. And when at last you do forgive me, I forbid you to suffer a moment’s guilt in my name. I ask that you remember only my blessing upon you, Bar-Shalem Re-mose.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan prolonged the conflict seven more years, spreading misery and death throughout Indochina. Nixon began gradually drawing down the number of Americans fighting there in 1969, and— catastrophically, as it turned out— began shifting the
military burden to Saigon.

General Abrams threw greater and greater responsibility for prosecuting the war to the ARVN [South Vietnamese military], shifting his efforts to disrupting and destroying Hanoi’s delivery of troops and matériel. This is what prompted the raids into the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia, where North Vietnam had long sheltered troops and supply routes. The bombing of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia destabilized that neutral country, leading to the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 and the rise of the murderous Khmer Rouge, which would be responsible for the deaths of millions of Cambodians in ensuing years.”
― Mark Bowden, Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I have never yielded to reality.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Golden Man

“I think we have to own the fears that we
have of each other, and then, in some
practical way, some daily way, figure
out how to see people differently
than the way we were brought up to.
”
― Alice Walker

“Find the good—and praise it.”
― Alex Haley

“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
― Dante Alighieri

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects ...