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This is a book about a vampire. Angelina, the main character, is assaulted by two men while hitchhiking around the country, which awakens her vampiric nature. She kills one of them and hits the road, sucking blood to survive, mesmerizing ...more
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Zora Neale Hurston
“I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth the glory of change. I was, when the earth hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated in infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble in space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, every moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with infinite and need no other assurance.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

Joseph A. Schumpeter
“We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.”
Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Chris Hedges
“I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.”
Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

Rabindranath Tagore
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
Rabindranath Tagore

Stephen R. Lawhead
“J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible.”
Stephen R. Lawhead, The Paradise War

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