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“My father writes, “The Sabbath comes like a caress, wiping away fear, sorrow and somber memories.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

“Human beings are not nature’s favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

“I felt breathless, like every question was a step up a stairway.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“According to an old sailing proverb, below latitude 40° south there is no law, and below 50° south, no God.”
― Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

“Nothing is too ugly for this world, I think. It’s just that people pretend not to see.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“Fire-breathing bitch-queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution. I don’t even know that white people see transcendence the way we do. I’m not sure that their dichotomies apply to me.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“When you told me that I want too much, I considered how much you take.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

“My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on the grocery shelf only days after the fish was pulled from the water thousands of mi,es away. Prices that low and efficiencies that tight come with hidden costs, and it is the manning agencies that help in the hiding.”
― Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

“For the next twenty years, adults in every corner of America would charge D&D (and its media cousins, heavy metal and horror) with destroying young lives.”
― Rick Emerson, Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

“She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“They joined hands.
So the world ended.
And the next one began.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“They say that Americans learn where foreign countries are by bombing them. Now it seems we are all learning about nature's circulatory systems by poisoning them.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted there. My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth. I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me. Last night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first of that fatal series which is to blot out the very traces of my existence from the earth.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I feel a wonderful peace and rest to-night. It is as if some haunting presence were removed from me. Perhaps . . . My surmise was not finished, could not be; for I caught sight in the mirror of the red mark upon my forehead; and I knew that I was still unclean.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Sometimes I think of how my childhood would have been different if I had been introduced directly to death. Made to sit in his presence, shake his hand. Told that he would be an intimate companion, influencing my every move and decision, whispering, “You are food for worms” in my ear. Maybe he would have been a friend.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory