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“Gossip is only meant to weaken your powers because people are afraid of anything but the most common and familiar.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter

“Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“He knew the weather did not make a place what it was; it only helped to change people’s moods and sometimes to make things more bearable. In the end, it was all just mood lighting, painting over the grey truths of this dreary canvas of a town.”
― Tom Ward, A Departure

“Belief in the irrational is one definition of faith, but it is also true that clinging to absurd or disputed doctrines binds a community of faith together and defines a barrier to the outside world.”
― Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief