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“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“People in our lives are supposed to add to our emotional stability, not drain it.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Time is a luxury we don’t have. Each passing second raises the probability that someone else just took their last breath.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“The forest was almost thunderous in its myriad sounds.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“I remember not belonging. I was always Summer’s older sister—the plain one with the red hair and a gap between her front teeth. The first boy I had a crush on said my teeth looked like piano keys. My smile hid behind by hand until one day the captain of the hockey team said I looked like Madonna. It was like instant validation. Mine wasn’t a flaw, it was a feature . . . my unique trademark. I knew then I didn’t want to be perfect nor was my self-esteem tied to any clique.
Starla reassuring teenage Willa of the correct perspective on self esteem and self-worth.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“إن الإنسان الذي يصبح خاضعاً لحاجاته المغرّبة هو كائن إنساني مشوه ذهنياً وطبيعياً ... السلعة الفاعلة والواعية ذاتياً. إن الإنسان السلعة هذا لا يعرف سوي طريق واحد لتواصل ذاته مع العالم الخارجي, بواسطة امتلاكه واستهلاكه: فكلما يكون الإنسان أكثر اغتراباً كلما تساهم حاسة الملكية والاستعمال أكثر في تشكيل علاقاته بالعالم. فكلما تكون أنت أقل, وكلما تعبر أقل عن حياتك, كلما تملك أكثر, وكلما تكون حياتك المغرَّبة وعملية توفير وجودك, أعظم”
― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.”
― Randy Pausch

“I believe it was Thursday; my last memory was Tuesday night, and I did not use to die more than two days in a row.”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection