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“The strength of Calberna flows from our women. We protect them, we love them, but we do not cage them.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“I am a Prince of Calberna. I have trained my whole life not only to lead our warriors to victory in battle, but also to serve and protect.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Evil must always be fought.”
― Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow

“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

“There is a difference between what is wrong and what is evil. Evil is committed when clarity is taken away from what is clearly wrong, allowing wrong to be seen as less wrong, excusable, right, or an obligatory commandment of the Lord God Almighty.

Evil is bad sold as good, wrong sold as right, injustice sold as justice. Like the coat of a virus, a thin veil of right can disguise enormous wrong and confer an ability to infect others.”
― John Hartung

“All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.”
― Tony Hendra, Messiah of Morris Avenue

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Human reason can excuse any evil.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Calberna’s prince was too big. Too male. Too unsettling. Too appealing. Too… everything. And for her, that made Dilys Merimydion pure, deadly poison wrapped up in a dangerously tempting package.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“You think a courtship and a hunt are two separate things.” Ari grinned, showing gleaming white teeth with battle fangs fully extended. “They’re not.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“What happened yesterday was a mistake, but it’s over now. In the past, I’ve forgotten it, and so should you.”
His brows rose. “You have forgotten? This, I do not believe.” He stepped closer again. She retreated up another stair. “What passed between us was not forgettable. I am not forgettable. Not to you.”
“You have a high opinion of yourself.”
“No higher than deserved. But I know when a woman looks at me and likes what she sees. And I know when she wants more.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“Like the sea, from which we derive our gifts, we are wild at heart, and deadly when angered.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“I’m the forest fire, and you’re standing there with a glass of water saying you can put me out. But you can’t!”
He arched his brows. “Considering that I’ve spent the better part of the last fourteen hours proving that I can, in fact, light your fire and put it out over and over again, I’m vaguely insulted by that remark.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“If a woman was unattached and in possession of a pulse, she would not long remain unwilling in the face of a determined Calbernan’s courtship.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“There was something breathtakingly beautiful about the life he was describing... She could almost feel his need and his love lapping at her like waves on a beach.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“He looked exactly like what he was: a rich and valorous Sealord of Calberna, strong, battle-tested. Confident in all things and easy on the eye. A man even a wealthy, beautiful, magically gifted princess would be pleased to call her own.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“Call him. Claim him. Speak his Name. Make him thine before all others.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King

“To Calbernans, love and happiness were not simply emotions. They were as essential as air and water. A Calbernan could not live without them.”
― C.L. Wilson, The Sea King