E. Roberts

“Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“My name is Hugo. No, just Hugo. That's all they ever called me at the Home. I lived at the Home ever since I can remember, and the Sisters were very kind to me. The other children, they would not play with me because of my back and my squint but the Sister’s were kind. They didn’t call me “Crazy Hugo’’ and make fun of me because I couldn’t recite. They didn’t get me in the corner and hit me and make me cry.”
― Robert Bloch, The Best of Robert Bloch: Volume 3

“The American order thereby upheld the hierarchy of wealth, which some thought was mandated by God and others viewed as representing the immutable laws of nature. Nature, it was claimed, rewarded merit with wealth while penalising indolence.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world—it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.”
― Michael McDowell, The Elementals