James McGuffey

“Dis is bribery, is it?” he whispered. “This is taxation,”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

“History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn’t this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever. You’re not the best friend and love of my life I’ve spent this past month mourning, and missing long before that. I don’t want to talk to you anymore.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Ser Barristan,” she called, “I know what quality a king needs most.” “Courage, Your Grace?” “Cheeks like iron,” she teased. “All I do is sit.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Earth’s Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size on the sky—a coincidence not shared by any other planet–moon combination in the solar system, allowing for uniquely photogenic total solar eclipses. Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever and whenever this happens, the locked moon shows only one face to its host planet.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry