Catherine Sharp

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare , Hamlet

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
― Mark Twain

“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy