Dawn

“When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years.”
― Lisa Shearin, Magic Lost, Trouble Found

“The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.”
― Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind

“You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.”
― Lisa Shearin, Magic Lost, Trouble Found

“It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon