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“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“Forgiveness is an act of self-love, and you don’t even need to tell the people who have hurt you that you forgave them.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“I said to Hun Sen, “Thank you, Hun! You have also told me that there was a kidnapping incident which almost bankrupted your family! Can you please elaborate upon that?”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“I talk like a survivor.”
― D.L. Maddox, Reckoning

“Cheers . . . here’s to the City of Buffalo often coined as a drinking city with a sports problem.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Crete, May 1941. It was nearly five o’clock when the three soldiers reached the end of the olive grove. The dust-filled air shimmered in the late-afternoon heat. Their bodies ached, their uniforms were caked with dirt and sweat and they were hungry, thirsty and exhausted. The sensible thing now would be to lay up where they were for a few hours’ rest, then finish the journey under cover of darkness. But there was a tight deadline to meet. The evacuation vessel was scheduled to leave at midnight and they had been warned the captain wouldn’t wait for stragglers.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

“You arrogant, insufferable asshole; you scared me to death. If I hadn’t been so afraid that you were already dead, I’d have killed you myself.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

“Their temporary home filled with the scent of soup, ink and fresh paper and the reassuring harmonic vibration of piano strings.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“I called and called until someone took pity and told me what was going on. She developed COVID-19 pneumonia and they put her on a ventilator.”
My sister’s crying was bordering on hysteria. “Jack, she died this morning! Deloris is gone! I still can’t believe it!”
I swerved, slammed on the brakes, and pulled the Ram over to the side of the highway.”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

“I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at marketing. My supervisor says I have a good eye and creative ideas.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“That’s why the question what men are good for continues to be debated within our societies, as well as between anthropologists”
― Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality

“Later that year, the answer to whether or not to bring a child into a frightening century will be instantly clear to them, upon learning that Sabrina is pregnant—the answer being, Of course you do. A child is not just a child, but the future incarnate. Despair vanishes when there is truly something to hope for: a world for your child. You’ll do anything to assure there’ll be one. It may have colossal problems, but your baby is part of the solution, as will you be: there’s no more compelling reason to save the Earth than parents wanting to protect their offspring, one of whom may invent the miracle that changes all the odds. Two”
― Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

“Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“The creatures who act as though they belong to the world follow the peace-keeping law, and because they follow that law, they give the creatures around them a chance to grow toward whatever it’s possible for them to become. That’s how man came into being. The creatures around Australopithecus didn’t imagine that the world belonged to them, so they let him live and grow. How does being civilized come into it? Does being civilized mean that you have to destroy the world?” “No.” “Does being civilized make you incapable of giving the creatures around you a little space in which to live?” “No.” “Does it make you incapable of living as harmlessly as sharks and tarantulas and rattlesnakes?” “No.” “Does it make you incapable of following a law that even snails and earthworms manage to follow without any difficulty?” “No.” “As I pointed out some time ago, human settlement isn’t against the law, it’s subject to the law—and the same is true of civilization.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand