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“Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

“Adrian von Trotha was thinking, “Soldiers must obey their officers and I shall enforce that! As well, the enemy will not obtain any leniency from me!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

“Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.”
― Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana

“Kahlil Gibran addresses himself in what are perhaps the finest words ever written about child-raising: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. 19”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Aufarbeitung! Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit! Wir Studenten des Seminars sahen uns als Avantgarde der Aufarbeitung. Wir rissen die Fenster auf, ließen die Luft herein, den Wind, der endlich den Staub aufwirbelte, den die Gesellschaft über die Furchtbarkeiten der Vergangenheit hatte sinken lassen. Wir sorgten dafür, daß man atmen und sehen konnte. Auch wir setzten nicht auf juristische Gelehrsamkeit. Daß verurteilt werden müsse, stand für uns fest. Ebenso fest stand für uns, daß es nur vordergründig um die Verurteilung dieses oder jenes KZ-Wächters und -Schergen ging. Die Generation, die sich der Wächter und Schergen bedient oder sie nicht gehindert oder sie nicht wenigstens ausgestoßen hatte, als sie sie nach 1945 hätte ausstoßen können, stand vor Gericht, und wir verurteilten sie in einem Verfahren der Aufarbeitung und Aufklärung zu Scham. (S.87)”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
― Albert Camus

“In ten years, I've never felt so calm. So right. This would be a fine death. . . A fine death. But there are the thousands to think of. . . and Harvey. . . I have to know.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns