José Alejandro Vázquez

“I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.”
― PAUL KEARNEY

“But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.”
― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane

“She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.”
― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane

“There is no temptation from outside the heart.”
― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane