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“There’s always hope,” I said. “There’s always a reason for going on.”
“With vivid memories of the last IRS form I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a positive outrage, wondering to myself just what had become of the fiery spirit of American taxpayers over the intervening two hundred years.”
― Drums of Autumn
― Drums of Autumn
“...[A]ll the worldly trappings of kingship were worthless frippery when it came to the soul.”
― Templar Silks
― Templar Silks
“There is no shame in working with your hands. In crafting or fixing. We use our minds, we use our words-if God did not want us to use our hands, too, He would not have given us such capable ones.”
― An Hour Unspent
― An Hour Unspent
“The heart is a peculiar thing. It sees and interprets details long before the brain has started to think there might be something worth noticing. The brain resents this skill, however, and will often spitefully do all it can to repress what the heart might be whispering.”
― Shadow Hand
― Shadow Hand
“I want to tell them all; the world is bigger than high school.”
― Dangerous Girls
― Dangerous Girls
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