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“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record

“You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose.”
― Jean-Luc Picard