

“Maxim 12:
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
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A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
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“The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.”
― Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
― Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone

“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker

“To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.”
― Memories of Midnight
― Memories of Midnight

“and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn’t an answer.”
― Spares
― Spares
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