Haley

“And I was so tempted that night in Cippanhamm’s royal church. There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction. At one moment, when Ragnar was bellowing with laughter and slapping my shoulder so hard that it hurt, I felt the words form on my tongue. That is Alfred, I would have said, pointing at him, and all my world would have changed and there would have been no more England. Yet, at the last moment, when the first word was on my tongue, I choked it back. Brida was watching me, her shrewd eyes calm, and I caught her gaze and I thought of Iseult. In a year or two, I thought, Iseult would look like Brida. They”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

“The public library was more accommodating;”
― Stephen Hunter, The Third Bullet

“I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon