Catherine

“He could do whatever he wanted. My father was the same way: a houseful of guests, and my mother's duty was to provide food, drink, fun, and conversation, while my father's was to nap or read.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“It is painful to advert to these things. But our forefathers, though wise, pious, and sincere, were nevertheless, in respect to Christian charity, under a cloud. And, in History, truth should be held sacre, at whatever cost . . .especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, tajes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.”
― Colonel Thomas Aspinwall

“There are souls, he thought, who's umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as the enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?”
― Ann Leckie