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“Thread and cloth were ordinary – worse than ordinary; they were women’s affairs. But letters! Letters were for lords and kings. And something in me blazed fiery jealous and joyous at the thought: Why ever should they have what I did not?”
― Nancy Springer, I Am Morgan le Fay

“Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.”
― Nancy Springer, Lionclaw

“Even foolery is dangerous," said Jasper, "in the hands of a fool.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“She chastised me roundly for my "failings". I prefer to call them uneven successes.”
― Sebastian Moran, The Moriarty Papers: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes's Great Nemesis, Compiled by Colonel Sebasian Moran

“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea

“She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it.
They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“Courage is just dreams with shoes on.”
― Reba Riley, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions

“Heads, you win. Tails, he loses.”
― Paul Stewart, Stormchaser

“I am not overly encumbered by principle, as you know,” Zelikman continued. “I am a gentlemen of the road, an apostate from the faith of my fathers, a renegade, a brigand, a hired blade, a thief, but on this one small principle of economy, damn you, and damn that troublemaking little stripling, and damn every one of those men out there, living men, in full possession, for the most part, of all their limbs and humors, I have to hold firm: if we can only save them one man at a time, then by God we must only kill them one man at a time.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

“Rarely can they claim to be simply a mirror of events. Like eyewitness reports, images deliver an interpretation of an event from a specific perspective: subjective, sometimes partisan, sometimes manipulative. Anyone who believes a photograph captures "reality" is naïve. Why a picture was taken, who distributed it, what their intention was - these questions must be asked again and again. Photographs can only speak to us only after we have mistrusted and challenged them.”
― Peter Stepan, Photos that Changed the World

“While freedom can be achieved, it may also be reduced or rescinded, It can never be taken for granted.”
― Eric Foner, Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Volume 2

“It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.”
― Tillie Olsen, Silences

“When I was young, literature was not about the things it is about for me now. Literature was about the chance to peek into other people to see if I was like them.”
― Jacquelyn Ardam, Avidly Reads Poetry

“And perhaps the sun, in search of novelty, will rise in the west.”
― David Mamet, Keep Your Pantheon (and School): Two Unrelated Plays

“Seek with enough conviction aforethought and ye shall find.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Every person is just an obstacle unless you try to understand them.”
― Trevor Noah, Into the Uncut Grass