Brian

“Roman skepticism and piety were close bedfellows, so perhaps it was considered foolish to believe every in legend, even when tradition demanded an outward show of devotion.”
― Mab Borden, Ancient Roman Holidays

“Don’t be surprised when you receive criticism. Be surprised if you don’t receive it!”
― Unknown

“Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked.”
― Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen

“The fact that different nations and states define the age of consent differently (in Florida it’s eighteen; in New York it’s seventeen; in England it’s sixteen) only gave him ammunition. He [Epstein] said these inconsistencies proved these laws were arbitrary and meaningless; no one could convince him that sex with minors was wrong, because no one could agree on what a minor was!”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice