“I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears.”
― Batgirl: Year One
― Batgirl: Year One
“When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us.”
― A Man Named Dave
― A Man Named Dave
“...she thought herself very ill used, yet she had no power to resent it”
― Moll Flanders
― Moll Flanders
“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
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