Diane

“No one really faces death any differently. No one is ready when it comes, not really. You can go in your sleep, I suppose, and it won’t distress you like the other kind does—in your face, obvious, looming. But if you’re awake?” He held up his hands. “I’ve never seen anyone go gracefully awake. Not if they know it’s coming, anyway.”
― Robert J. Crane, Omega

“Death is a fact of life, Little Doll. Death is a fact of war. War is certain in only one respect, Bjorn said with a rumble. And death is the only certainty in life.”
― Robert J. Crane, Power

“There are always multiple perspectives. What one person holds to be truth, another would dispute until the day they die. People are contrary, argumentative. In order to make someone ‘see the light’ and accept a truth, sometimes it must be presented in a different way. When someone believes something so strongly that it is almost conviction for them, depriving them of that falsehood and replacing it with the truth is not something done by simply shouting that truth at them. They will reject it out of hand. They will deny it at every juncture. They need to be smoothed. The way needs to be prepared. You must approach it … with a ready supply of half-truths to gradually move them to the position where their mind is open to the truth. The real truth.”
― Robert J. Crane, Power

“Sounds good.” Considering the fact that Haley had done her best to ruin Rae’s experience the previous year, Rae thought she did fairly well keeping the dislike out of her voice. Molly, however, didn’t miss the expression on her face.”
― W.J. May, Dark Nebula