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“That all you got?” “‘The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”
― C.D. Reiss, HardBall

“A man is tested only a few times in his life, that's what Hugh said afterwards. He will seldom recognise the test when it comes along. And by the time he realises that it was a test, it will be too late. But how he behaves in that moment, that's what defines him. That's the mark of the man.”
― Kathleen MacMahon, This Is How It Ends

“I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.”
― Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons

“I was a good man once, but there's just no getting past the truth. I began by fighting monsters but in the process, I became one myself. There's no going back. The darkness still lies inside me. Sated by a lake of blood, and a universe of screams, it will always be there, black and brooding evil. AJ Adams, Dark Hunter”
― A.J. Adams, Dark Hunter