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“Seek with enough conviction aforethought and ye shall find.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“I am not overly encumbered by principle, as you know,” Zelikman continued. “I am a gentlemen of the road, an apostate from the faith of my fathers, a renegade, a brigand, a hired blade, a thief, but on this one small principle of economy, damn you, and damn that troublemaking little stripling, and damn every one of those men out there, living men, in full possession, for the most part, of all their limbs and humors, I have to hold firm: if we can only save them one man at a time, then by God we must only kill them one man at a time.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

“She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it.
They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“When I was young, literature was not about the things it is about for me now. Literature was about the chance to peek into other people to see if I was like them.”
― Jacquelyn Ardam, Avidly Reads Poetry