Emily

“Studies have shown that swearing has an anesthetic effect. Swearing eases pain.”
― Isaac Marion, The Burning World

“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“I want a god to curse. I'll take any of them, all of them; I'll scream and blaspheme till lightning shuts me up.”
― Isaac Marion, The Burning World

“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.”
― Leonard Bernstein