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“Bring me arrogance and folly, bring me fire and destruction, bring me doom and the collapse of entire civilizations—just don’t bring me household squabbles.”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody

“The needs of the many will always be loud.” He leans forward. Hooked nose inches from mine. “But in the end, it is only the strength of the few that matters.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“I would rather be taken advantage of now and again than go through life seeing monsters everywhere.”
― Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few