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[Nicole]

When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It's good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.
The Mark of Athena, page 385

[Janelle]

Cool book, Nicole!

[Werner]

"The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world."

--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger"

[Reggia]

That quote alone makes me want to read the book -- thanks for sharing it, Werner!

[Werner]

You're welcome, Reggia! The story that the quote is taken from appears in Doyle's The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.

[Reggia]

I added it to my Want To Read list... it's high time I read at least one book in this series!

[Werner]

Hope you enjoy it, Reggia!

[MichelleCH]

"There was one man who thoroughly believed that the thing at the present moment most essentially necessary to England’s glory was the return of Mr. Melmotte for Westminster. This man was undoubtedly a very ignorant man. He knew nothing of any one political question which had vexed England for the last half century,—nothing whatever of the political history which had made England what it was at the beginning of that half century … He had probably never read a book in his life. He knew nothing of the working of parliament, nothing of nationality,—had no preference whatever for one form of government over another, never having given his mind a moment’s trouble on the subject. He had not even reflected how a despotic monarch or a federal republic might affect himself, and possibly did not comprehend the meaning of those terms. But yet he was fully confident that England did demand and ought to demand that Mr. Melmotte should be returned for Westminster. This man was Mr. Melmotte himself."

~Anthony Trollope The Way We Live Now

[Werner]

"...courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

--Justin W. M. Roberts, The Policewoman

[Janelle]

Ooh, that's good!

[Werner]

I thought so, too, Janelle! Justin didn't actually originate that saying, but one of his characters quotes it. It was originally written by a James Neil Hollingworth, writing under the pen name Ambrose Redmoon (https://www.passiton.com/inspirationa... ).

[Yuri]

"I'll feel, therefore I'll be. Let poverty go begging and climate change braise in hell. Social justice can drown in ink. I'll be an activist of the emotions, a loud, campaigning spirit fighting with tears and sighs to shape institutions around my vulnerable self."
Ian McEwan - Nutshell

[Reggia]

"Dear Confirmation Candidates! When in the last days before your confirmation I asked you many times what you hoped to hear in your confirmation address, I often received the answer: we want a serious warning which we shall remember all our lives. And I can assure you that whoever listens well today will receive a warning or two by the way; but look, life itself gives us enough and too many serious warnings today; and so; and so today I must not make your prospect for the future seem harder and darker than it already is -- and I know that many of you know a great many of the hard facts of life. Today you are not to be given fear of life but courage; and so today in the Church we shall speak more than ever of hope, the hope that we have and which no one can take from you." ~from a speech he gave; it was contained in the biography Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

[Vicky]

A smokey haze had settled over the moor overnight, one that the brighter rays of the sun hadn't yet burned its way through.But in spite of the mist, the air boasted a crisp ,clear quality I'd experienced very few other places .

[Werner]

Vicky, can you tell us what writing your quote comes from, and who wrote it?

[Werner]

"[She] wondered if really good people could ever know what it meant, this peace that came with the knowledge that there was one human being who knew your innermost sins and secrecies and loved you in spite of them."

--Gwendolyn Bristow, Deep Summer

[Werner]

"...they keep a little private contract with their private God that they're better than other folks. They got education and manners and I ain't saying them things ain't fine to have, I wish I had some, but them Larnes and Sheramys and their sort, they honestly think the reason they're like that and you and me ain't is that the Lord God made them out of a different kind of dust from us. It ain't never been in the back side of their mind that if you and me had been started off like them the day we were born we'd be elegant as them now."

--Gwendolyn Bristow, The Handsome Road

[Werner]

"Fighting for truth and justice, facing death and winning, is a high like nothing else. After a while, you get kind of immune and need more.”

--Seeley James, Element 42

[Werner]

"Each girl had a blue knitted hood, and each boy a red crocheted comforter, all made by Momma, Carol, and Elfrida. ('Because if you buy everything, it doesn't show so much love,' said Carol.)"

--Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol

[Reggia]

"Earth!---Earth!---Earth!

Earth with thy folds, and hollows, and holes, into which a man may fling himself and crouch down. In the spasm of terror, under the hailing of annihilation, in the bellowing death of the explosions, O Earth, thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life. Our being, almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm, streams back through our hands from thee, and we, thy redeemed ones, bury ourselves in thee, and through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope bite into thee with our lips!"

~Erich Maria Remarque/ All Quiet on the Western Front

[Reggia]

"With the very first rays of light it came alive in me: hope. As things emerged in outline and filled with colour, hope increased until it was like a song in my heart."

~Yann Martel/ Life of Pi

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"Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?”

--Jack Finney, Time and Again

[Reggia]

"...he was a detective; he was a member of the Malmö Criminal Investigation Authority, and that meant there were souls within his care... yes, he thought, souls, because that old-fashioned word said so much more than the word person. A soul was something more than that -- a soul had feelings and ambitions and private tragedies. A soul weighed more than something that was not a soul."

~Alexander McCall Smith/ The Department of Sensitive Crimes