Challenges Quotes

“Why is everyone so sure that I should make this decision?” “There’s no way to get through life without making decisions,”
― Natalie Grey, Challenges

“subsistence living was often the norm. One learned to expect lean times and to jump at work when it was offered, and so people were especially vulnerable to those who, pretending to be reasonable, preyed upon the natural instinct to provide for one’s family. And those people, she had told him, were brutal. They controlled through unpredictable violence and fear, and left one choice: obey and be richly rewarded, or disobey and be killed painfully. No matter how much they might, on some level, realize that they could be in the line of fire at any time, people kept their heads down out of instinct. They told themselves that everyone did whatever they needed to do to survive. They told themselves that they and their families had to be their first priority. Even”
― Natalie Grey, Challenges