Conception Weekley

“Harlan chuckles to himself and shakes his head, as though enjoying a joke only he has heard. ‘Now I guess it’s only fair to warn you,’ he says. ‘This is not going to go the way you want it to.”
― C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

“I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist.”
― Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“The commander stopped in front of Audray. “Well, isn’t this a special day. We have the temple, this chamber I never knew about, and the woman who stole my husband!”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“It seemed trivial. After the battlefield it was going to be difficult to take seriously some of the stuff people worried about in peacetime.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants