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“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.”
― Rick Riordan

“They could be trained and tended. But they were of the wild, and the wild they needed for their spirit.”
― Nora Roberts, Shadow Spell

“Love isn’t a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there’s a mistake. It’s a gift, as much for the giver as the one who’s given it. The day you’ll take it, hold it, you won’t be afraid.”
― Nora Roberts, Shadow Spell

“He’d died a hero. It seemed so empty to me, at that moment. Meaningless to be a hero.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“That’s the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“But a century from now, your mortal associates will be rotting in the earth, whereas, barring amputation or radical shifts in fashion, you will still be putting your pants on one leg at a time.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Technicality,” Shiro said. “The cigars?” “My Christianity,” Shiro said. “When I was a boy, I liked Elvis. Had a chance to see him in concert when we moved to California. It was a big revival meeting. There was Elvis and then a speaker and my English was not so good. He invited people backstage to meet the king. Thought he meant Elvis, so I go backstage.” He sighed. “Found out later I had become a Baptist.” I barked out a laugh. “You’re kidding.” “No. But it was done, so I tried not to be too bad at being Baptist.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“There’s a theory making the rounds now that when the meteor hit it only killed off the big stuff. That there were plenty of smaller reptiles running around, about the same size as all the mammals at the time. The reptiles should have regained their position eventually, but they didn’t, because the mammals could feel love. They could be utterly, even irrationally devoted to their mates and their offspring. It made them more likely to survive. The lizards couldn’t do that. The meteor hit gave the mammals their shot, but it was love that turned the tide.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Screw up my life?” He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, “I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.” He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, “Do your worst.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Here’s something else I bet you didn’t know about Tyrannosaurs: they don’t corner well.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“See, here’s the thing. Morgan was right: you can’t win them all. But that doesn’t mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part—he was too busy living it.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn’t?”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

“Kettleburn retired to Hogsmeade but was unable, due to his physical infirmities, to take part in the Battle of Hogwarts. Determined to play his part, he clambered into his attic and threw his entire stock of Flobberworms out of the skylight at passing Death Eaters. While this may not have had much effect on the outcome of the battle, it was generally felt to show the right spirit.”
― J.K. Rowling, Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The strife will only get worse. Chaos feeds on weak leaders, divided loyalties. That”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy, own and consume. It becomes almost impossible to accept the limits imposed by reality. In this horizon, a genuine sense of the common good also disappears. As these attitudes become more widespread, social norms are respected only to the extent that they do not clash with personal needs.”
― Pope Francis, Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

“They looked like the people you see on the six o’clock news—refugees, sent to wait in some strange ugly place, with all their boxes and sacks around them. It suddenly occurred to me that this was just the way it must have been for the real Holy Family, stuck away in a barn by people who didn’t much care what happened to them. They couldn’t have been very neat and tidy either, but more like this Mary and Joseph”
― Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

“action in an absence of information is wasted effort,”
― Robert Lynn Asprin, Hit or Myth

“a feat which is not unlike tryin’ to hold a large beach ball under water while doin’ needlepoint,”
― Robert Lynn Asprin, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link

“Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense of the word.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“If a “private” cyber war ever breaks out, it will probably be launched by a bank.”
― Shane Harris, @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Shit!” I heard Diehl shout over the comm. “I just lost my gorram shields because I’m already out of frakkin’ power!” “Dude,” Cruz said. “You shouldn’t mix swears from different universes.” “Says who?” Diehl shot back. “Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place”
― Ernest Cline, Armada

“A hunch is a deduction your subconscious has made from evidence you don't yet know you have.”
― Donna Andrews, The Good, the Bad, and the Emus

“As time passed, stories of Nicholas the gift giver spread. German lore, for example, says that when St. Klaus (Nicholas) became a priest, family members in the woolen trade presented him with a fine red woolen cape. Sometime later, a period of famine struck Lycia, and many poor people suffered from scurvy for lack of fruit. Nicholas had his red cape and other woolen material cut into pieces to make stockings. He filled the stockings with dried fruit treats and delivered them to needy children to help stem the scurvy. For families who had no firewood, he left charcoal, bundled with string, at the threshold.”
― William J. Bennett, The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas

“the fact that so many women writers are drawn to fairy-tale material is also part of a long and honorable historic tradition: folk tales and magical tales (like other largely anonymous arts) have long been associated with women. As Alison Lurie has pointed out (in her essay “Once Upon a Time”): “Throughout Europe (except in Ireland), the storytellers from whom the Grimm Brothers and their followers collected their material were most often women; in some areas they were all women. For hundreds of years, while written literature was almost exclusively the province of men, these tales were being invented and passed on orally by women.” For centuries, fairy tales have been the voice of disenfranchised populations: not only women, but also the old, the poor, and social outcasts (such as the Gypsies—famed throughout the world for their wealth of magical tales). Fairy tales speak covertly, symbolically, about the hard realities of life; and these symbols are proving as potent to artists today as in centuries past.”
― Ellen Datlow, Silver Birch, Blood Moon