Beard in Hiding (Winston Brothers, #4.5)

by Penny Reid

“Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C.S. Lewis

“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde

“There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“Might makes right, Diane.” “That’s not true for everyone.” “It is, but in your world it’s called capitalism.”

“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.” Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

I don’t want to have to know how to kick butt. I want people to listen to me, to my words, I want them to mean something. Why can’t a woman’s words count for more than a man’s violence?”

“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.” Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.” Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

“We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.” Anaïs Nin, Little Birds