Johnson

“I promise loyalty. I promise secrecy. And I promise courage.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One

“الذاكرة زائفة, كيف تكذّب ذكرياتنا دائمًا: تغير ترتيب الأحداث, وتعطي معنىً لشيء لم يكن له معنى, وتجمّل وتبجّل? لهذا أكتفي بما فعلته, بالمظاهر المحددة, بشكل موضوعي, لا أرغب بتضليل أو باختراع أشياء من ذكراتي.”
― Günter Grass

“The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him. Once more, as on that day in the synagogue, Daniel felt a spark leap up in his own body. Looking about him he could see the same spark reflected in the eyes of the men and women who jostled him.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were.”
― Alan Moore