Thomas Hanold

“And when they would be talking and Granma would say, “Do ye kin me, Wales?” and he would answer, “I kin ye,” it meant, “I understand ye.” To them, love and understanding was the same thing. Granma said you couldn’t love something you didn’t understand; nor could you love people, nor God, if you didn’t understand the people and God. Granpa and Granma had an understanding, and so they had a love. Granma said the understanding run deeper as the years went by, and she reckined it would get beyond anything mortal folks could think upon or explain. And so they called it “kin.” Granpa”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

“Just a whisper in the right ear, and voila—a fresh sense of outrage to stoke a fresh conflagration.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“People in our lives are supposed to add to our emotional stability, not drain it.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“That was followed by Sharp saying, “Mick, it is Sharp here. I have an urgent fire mission for you. This is greatly bigger than I thought, and I just know that the Noggies will attack us soon! Request fire upon grid reference which will be given to you by Sunray Delta Six”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy