Randi Harper

“How do you deal with it? How do you keep from falling apart? That—What happened to them is horrible. How can a person do that to another?” Rose took a slow breath. “You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it.” I watched her leave, the clack of her quick heels sounding sharp before the door closed. Yeah. I can do that.”
― Kim Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

“There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“There is no normal anymore,” he heard himself say. “You kind of…just keep going, because that’s all you got. The hardest thing is being with other people—it’s like they’re on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what’s wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It’s a whole different language, and you’ve got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It’s really hard to relate.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover at Last

“Hopper’s thrust was always to simplify and to demystify. She reserved some of her most cutting remarks for those who insisted that only an expert in writing machine code could run a machine; she had no time for programmers who saw themselves as high priests standing between computers and the public.46”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea