Maxwell Seweall

“Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I could also see just by looking around me how we tend to over-romanticize history. Life in those other centuries had not been all knights-and-ladies stuff. There was nothing romantic about cottages where eight or ten people slept in one room with no privacy; where there were no bathrooms, not even outside privies—even if the cottage did happen to have picturesque thatch on the roof. There was nothing glamorous in any century about no running water in which to bathe or about fleas on human beings; or about the blackgum twigs with which some of the women right now, in 1912, dipped snuff and then rubbed their teeth and gums. So many of the people had terrible-looking teeth or no teeth at all. And the eye trouble that was so prevalent. I had learned that it was trachoma and that it was a dangerous infection which, if unchecked, resulted in blindness.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“I’ve been at this a long time. The good guys don’t always win. You take what you can get...”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.”
― Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears