Katiebeth

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything