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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the Irish, had they the power, would have done equally terrible things to the British. And so also for any other paired adversaries I can imagine. The difficulty is to hold on to both truths with equal intensity, not let either one negate the other, and know when to emphasize one without forgetting the other. Our humanity is probably lost and gained in the necessary tension between them both. I hope, by the way, that I do not sound anti-British. It is impossible not to admire a people who gave up India and held on to Northern Ireland. That shows a truly Celtic sense of humor.”
― John Dominic Crossan

“I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“You would throw away all that we have given you for a man’s love?”
“Not a man’s love,” I say softly. “But Duval’s. And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way."
"I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming."
Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.”
― Rita Rudner

“Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours....”
― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.”
― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.”
― Rita Rudner

“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.”
― Rita Rudner

“an allegation of abuse makes a trio of claims: This happened. It was wrong. It matters.”
― Deborah Tuerkheimer, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

“Those at greater risk for sexual violence are more likely to be met with distrust, blame, or disregard, diminishing the odds that they will pursue a formal complaint.”
― Deborah Tuerkheimer, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

“A culture that routinely downgrades the worth of victims in relation to perpetrators is a culture that muzzles accusations of abuse.”
― Deborah Tuerkheimer, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

“victimhood of black men in the criminal justice system supersedes all other harm.”
― Deborah Tuerkheimer, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

“Sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence occurs with alarming frequency. Black girls are especially vulnerable, with estimates as high as 65 percent having”
― Deborah Tuerkheimer, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers