Karole Dougall

“His entire existence had been accumulating towards this moment; as if all his sorrow, all the pain and manifold disasters were necessary in order for the ecstasy of this one blissful moment to exist.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has a broken moral compass. Compasses have value because they point toward a single magnetic North, not a moving position.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

“People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible citizenry.”
― Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Getting out of trouble is a whole lot more of a hassle than staying out of trouble.”
― Gary Paulsen, Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed