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“People do not choose to be poor and hungry,” Matred said calmly. “We have enough, and to spare.”

“Women. I’m always being bullied by women and their good works.”

“Change is, I suppose, inevitable, and sometimes it brings good things.”

“I went to war thinking that mankind is reasonable, and found that it is not. But it has always been so, and at last I am growing up…”

“What would God have to do with a nation where brothers can turn against each other with such brutality?”

“I’m out of love with everything and everybody. Out of love with life.”

“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”

“People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.”

“..change is the way of the world.”

“We do not fear the spirits of our dead. When there has been love during life, why should that change after death?”

“Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create”

“…the world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.”

“It’s okay to want good things,” she whispered. “And to believe that you deserve a good life.”

“I was born knowing how to do three things—how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.”

“When we can’t change the past, the only thing left is to move forward.”

“That which refuses to grow destroys itself.”

“…men will so often only listen to other men.”

“Building a new life, a better life, Gil had told her, will keep you looking forward, until, one day, you’ll find you’re no longer tempted to keep turning back toward everything you’ve lost.”

“There comes a point where you have to decide what’s right for yourself and act, no matter the consequences.”

“Sometimes, he’d said, the braver thing is to accept help when you’ve been made to believe you shouldn’t need it.”

“He may posses power, but you have righteousness.”

“I believe we choose what we become.”

“It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. Perhaps. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”

“Sometimes you just have to survive to fight another day.”

“Her destiny was a gift, and now she would manifest it.”

“The only real thing in this world is what you can do for others. How you can take care of them.”

“…sometimes you had to push away the bad things until they left you alone for good.”

El dinero siempre es mejor el dinero le da a todo una capita de aceite que hace que nada chirríe que todo encaje en su sitio clicliclic todas las piezas funcionando como deben funcionar sin que nada se desbarate ni se rompa ni se encalle ni se tropiece. Los pobres nos pasamos la vida dándole martillazos a las piezas pero ni así encajan y ellos en cambio todo frescos todo tranquilos.

A los hombres como esos hay que ponerles tierra de por medio antes de que te ellos te la pongan por encima.

…mi marido era demasiado miedoso o demasiado honrado, las dos peores cosas que puede ser un pobre.