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“I feel homesick but I don’t know where for.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world was falling apart.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

“Valor, strength, fortitude, skill in weaponry, resolve never to retreat from battle, large-heartedness in charity, and leadership abilities, these are the natural qualities of work for Kshatriyas.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War