Donna

“For there are moments in all our lives, great and small, that we must trudge alone our forlorn roads into infinite wilderness, to endure our midnight hours of pain and sorrow--- the Gethsemane moments, when we are on our knees or backs, crying out to a universe that seems to have abandoned us. These are the greatest of moments, where we show our souls. Thee are our "finest hours." That these moments are given to us is neither accidental not cruel. Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we were born to reach great heights.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“...sometimes we see things in animals that aren't really there. It's called transference, if that makes any sense.

...I think there are a lot of people who say they do things for animals when they're really doing it for themselves. They see things in animals that might not really be there. I think sometimes that hurts the animals in the end, and it hurts other people, too.

...There are people on both sides of the issue who think animals are more valuable than people are...”
― C.J. Box, Open Season

“We're just different, that's all. That's all a freak is. someone who's different."

The Very Worst Thing”
― Torey Hayden

“Joe had always considered individual words as finite units of currency, and he believed in savings.”
― C.J. Box, Open Season