Nancy D BookDragoness

“not the perpetrators claimed a just and noble cause. Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Kate has been my ride-or-die in this for a long time now. The kind of friend everyone needs to have in their life. I hope you have that person. I just realized that I don’t know much about the people in your world these days, now that you live so far away. But I hope you have a Kate.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“When feverish politics and demented ideology entwine, those who are not well anchored to the beliefs that allow a civil society can be swept away, becoming part of the storm of madness that lays waste to everything.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“cram into whatever brief time was left to him. At our first meeting, back in early 2015, I’d thought he was one of the most morbid people I’d ever met. But I was mistaken. The lesson of John Sorensen was that to accept death was to accept life, and to accept life was to live in joy, however dire the circumstances around you.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old