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“Sometimes I wake up in the night and it’s there, beside me in bed, the guilt. Like a dark void waiting to suck me in.’

Atlas takes my hand. ‘Then tell it to go away,’ he whispers fiercely. He presses his lips to my ear. ‘Banish it, like a dragon banishes the dark.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.”
― Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment In Russia

“There in bloody billows bubbled the currents,
The angry eddy was everywhere mingled
And seething with gore, welling with sword-blood;
He death-doomed had hid him, when reaved of his joyance
He laid down his life in the lair he had fled to,
His heathenish spirit, where hell did receive him.”
― Lesslie Hall, Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

“Theologians cite Order in the Universe as proof of a Supreme Intelligence, but a glance is enough to see that the stars are not actually in neat little rows. (Oh, sure, there is the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper - but if they were really connect-the-dot drawings there would be numbers next to the stars.) Theology is just a debate over who to frame for creating reality. What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”
― Kerry Thornley