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“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Good. Illegal is always faster.”
― Eoin Colfer

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

“I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.

They would be irresistible.”
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape