Angie Lisle

“Oh, children could be spoiled all right, but not by kindnesses. Only the other way, in the truest sense of the word.”
― Tananarive Due, The Living Blood

“Jealousy is a dangerous emotion. Jealous people are usually so intensely dissatisfied with themselves that they have a burning desire to destroy anyone who has something they want, but feel they can’t have.”
― Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever

“Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend or save, as they found themselves inclined from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice. That the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former. That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully.”
― Swift Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels

“Sometimes, dear ones, all we have are our dreams,” she [Phuri Dai] said. “They keep us going until the next opportunity appears.”
― Richard O’Neill