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“Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called “policy,” and people who did it were “politicians.”
― Ken Follett, A Column of Fire

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring lives.”
― Eliza Maxwell, The Unremembered Girl

“There’s something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Children don’t judge their own lives. Normal for them is what’s laid before them day by day. Judgment comes later.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“I wonder if I worry too much about whether I’m happy or sad anyway. It seems like both of those things show up and leave on their own schedule. Maybe I should just worry about whether I’m doing the appropriate thing or making the appropriate choice.”
― Craig Lancaster, Edward Unspooled

“She wanted a balanced life but had only guesses, wishes, and fears when what she needed was answers. CHAPTER 5 Night had fallen by the time Whit climbed the bluestone steps to”
― Sonja Yoerg, True Places

“A mother, done? Done with being there for her family—was there a worse sin?”
― Katrin Schumann, The Forgotten Hours

“She looks down at her bleeding cuticles, the dry, ragged skin of her fingertips, and she says what she believes to be true: nothing escaped her. It turns out that no one believes her anyway, and that lack of belief in her festers, infects her through and through—because, in her heart, she wants to be an honest person, and she thought she was. But she is not fully honest with anyone, not even with herself. It turns out she cannot give voice to uncertainty; this is not allowed. She does not need to be told this to know it is true. So she becomes quiet; she continues her journey inward, a journey she will be on for years, alone, unable to share with anyone, not her family, not her friends, not her lover.”
― Katrin Schumann, The Forgotten Hours

“was afraid, once. But I have seen what they did to Esther, and to so many others who were on the road that day. More “ordinary people”. And now I am angry. And anger is stronger than fear.”
― Fiona Valpy, The Dressmaker's Gift

“You know, Raymond, above all else I consider myself a scientist, a chronicler of humankind. Over the years I have met many men like you and have come to the conclusion that beneath your bluster you are fundamentally all the same. You are cowards. That is what you are. Keen for any fight you think you can win, scared of those you cannot. I would wager you beat your animals. Horses, dogs, pets. And your women, probably—”
― Paul Howarth, Only Killers and Thieves

“They wanted to use my journals as evidence,” I said, twirling a lock of wavy hair around my finger. “But then they took it back when they realized that I probably had more damaging information in them than supportive for the defense.” “I imagine you would have been really upset. Those are personal to you,” Midge said.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“We both are, child. And you know why? We don’t have the luxury of fallin’ apart, for someone else to come picking up the pieces. We have a gift, you and I, we feel people’s hurt and pain and take it as our own. That’s what makes you protect your siblings like you do, without even being asked. It’s what makes me work at a place like this, to do what I can. Ain’t nobody gonna tell us it’s all right to fall apart.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“So as a victim, you think you have what it takes to get into these kids’ heads?” I smiled. “No ma’am. As a survivor I have what it takes.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“I told them that more than half of teen relationships were domestically violent. “It’s just in a different way. Boyfriends control who girls talk to or who they text and they think that’s okay. Girls think it’s okay to punch a guy, scream in his face, or scratch him. It’s normal to call each other names that are degrading or hang up on each other in the middle of a conversation. Teen dating is a breeding ground for adult relationships and if they don’t realize that what they’re doing now is wrong, they’ll carry that over into their relationships as adults. It only escalates from there.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Diligence clips the wings of cleverness, allowing it to stay firmly on the ground. Persistence grinds away the sharp edges of cleverness, not allowing it to take shortcuts through things. Cleverness thus clipped can more fully penetrate the nature of things.”
― Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow

“We’re all alike and yet so different. If we’re subjected to the smallest extra amount of pain, pain that then joins forces with guilt, and then together they find their way home to loneliness, we will find ourselves putting up the strongest of walls. Walls that reason can never penetrate.”
― Christina Rickardsson, Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

“Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people,” murmured Mr. Pepper. “It was Heinrich Heine, a poet, who said that many years ago.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“You believe that, Holly thinks. You believe it to your very soul, because you’re a holder-onner, and holder-onners are never able to understand let-goers. They are tribes that just can’t understand each other. Sort of like vaxxers and anti-vaxxers, Trumpers and Never Trumpers.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“The devil is the busiest thing I know.”
― J. California Cooper, Family

“The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world. Love must be, then, an act of truth-telling, a baring of mind and spirit just as ardent as the baring of the body. Truth and passion were one, and each impossible without the other.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“Honor and love were no kin—all who claimed so did ill in the world.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“No blight that ever destroyed our fields can match the human blight that came to us from across the Irish Sea. Why don’t you people declare war on your ignorance?”
― Leon Uris, Trinity

“He considered this, then looked out the window at the steady rain. Nothing is colder than cold November rain. It crossed my mind that someone should write a song about it… and eventually, someone did.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Horror stories are best appreciated by those who are compassionate and empathetic. A paradox, but a true one. I believe it is the unimaginative among us, those incapable of appreciating the dark side of make-believe, who have been responsible for most of the world’s woes.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“You like it darker? Fine. So do I, and that makes me your soul brother.”
― Stephen King

“Evelien, everything you do is so life places that child in your arms. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done wrong, because you’re gifted the reason for the wrong. It’s all for that.”
― Gian Sardar, When the World Goes Quiet

“You see the shape of the road you took and you’re grateful for every twist and turn, because it led to where you are. Cause and effect or fate, it doesn’t matter what you call it, because you hold your child in your arms and you’ll take whatever led you to that moment. It’s acceptance.”
― Gian Sardar, When the World Goes Quiet

“There are some who need God to be good, because their morality comes from being watched, August has said. Those people are dangerous the second they stop believing. After all, if no one’s there to punish them for a sin, why not be bad?”
― Gian Sardar, When the World Goes Quiet

“It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being’s eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They’re not like anything else, or anyone else’s, and may be the most perfect proof of the existence of a Creator.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness