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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“The empire was not a terrible thing. Neither was it a wonderful thing. The empire simply 'was'. The people suffered its rule because they were comfortable with its little tyrannies. Corruption was inevitable. You lived with it. It was either that or accept the chaos of the unknown.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

“Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.”
― Mike Mignola

“Black tea is steeped in imperialism. That's what gives it its flavor. Anything this flavorful has to be hiding an incredible amount of carnage.”
― Un-su Kim, The Plotters

“One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
― Audre Lorde

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus

“No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Some girls want to be a princess when they grow up. I wanted to be in a bad bitch girl gang.”
― Natalia Kills

“But just as a vaccine company facing bankruptcy will ultimately survive not by making the world's greatest vaccine but, rather, the world's worst virus, so, too, did bodyguard and security firms need the world's most evil terrorists in order to prosper, not the greatest security experts. That was capitalism, Hanja understood how the world could curl around and bite its own tail like the uroboros serpent. And he knew how to translate that into business and extract the maximum revenue. There was no better business model than owning both the virus and the vaccine. With one hand you parceled out fear and instability, and with the other you guaranteed safety and peace. A business like that would never go under.”
― Un-su Kim, The Plotters

“Mosscap considered. “Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful,” it said.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
― Patrick Henry

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
― George Washington

“I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper