“Isn’t that the hypocrisy of violence? That we do unto others what we are appalled by when they do it unto us?”
― Wardragon
― Wardragon
“Forgive her, if you can," I say. "Remember that fate is never what we think it will be. Your mother-my mother-we can never understand their torments. Their hurts. We may suffer the consequences of their mistakes and their sins, but we should not carry them on our hearts. We don't deserve that.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
― A Reaper at the Gates
“No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my restlessness.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“For the first time, I understood that I was afraid of Mother for the guilt she made me bear, and that I could never have an honest conversation with her. The woman I wanted for a friend would always be right; I would always be wrong. I have never understood why, for Mother was genuinely kind to others and could be kind to me when I did exactly as she wished.”
― A Girl from Yamhill
― A Girl from Yamhill
“How much he could believe of it, he did not know; for he did not know the man, and he had learned to suspect that every civilized man was a liar and a cheat until he had proved himself otherwise.”
― Tarzan the Magnificent
― Tarzan the Magnificent
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