Code Yellow in Gretna Green Quotes

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Author Unknown”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“The second, toxic guilt, is a feeling of responsibility for things beyond your control. Victims of abuse often receive the additional unwelcome gift of guilt from their abuser. The third, existential guilt, is also a feeling of responsibility, but this time for things that exist and you perceive them to be wrong: injustice, danger to unknown innocents, damage to your realm. Your inability to take effective action can be debilitating. And the last and perhaps the most insidious is cultural or religious guilt. Doing things in opposition to the cultural or religious norms and mores you were raised with often causes an unhelpful amount of guilt.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Cake isn't food; it's medicine for stress, and therefore has no calories" Queen Breanna”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Think about it: if we could live our lives backwards, they would be completely devoid of challenges, but we’d never be able to grow into the people we’ve become.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“And she is intelligent, so how can I help the stupid ones?”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“She spat in her hand and held it out for me to shake. I considered it, and my inner clean freak rebelled. Also, I suspected it was a test. I handed her a wet wipe from my top drawer. She grinned, used it, and then I shook her hand.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Because I could see Angry Town in my rearview mirror as I headed towards Blind Fury County.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Did you ever listen to someone and think, by the Goddess, you have the IQ of a crayon?”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“it’s not a gift because you decided to give someone something. They have to want it and be able to use it. But”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“it was actually Lyndon B Johnson who’d said, “It’s better to have an enemy inside your tent pissing out, than outside your tent pissing in.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“A good friend will help you bury a body. A great friend brings their own shovel. But your best friend would have eaten the idiot before they got on your last nerve.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“And Ad’Rian said he’d look into it, and he hasn’t got back to me. I know time moves differently for the Fae, but does everything have to take months?”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Did you know Churchill said, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others’?”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Pathos is an appeal to the audience’s feelings. Ethos is an explanation of the speaker’s credibility. Logos feeds the viewer’s logic needs, using facts and evidence.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green

“Women friends reached the parts of you that you didn’t even realise were unhappy until you relaxed in their company. Even a new female friend could help you put the world into a shape you could understand.”
― Linzi Day, Code Yellow in Gretna Green