Quotes from Burn

“I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Goodbye, Ash. You were the best-and worst-thing that ever happened to me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“This is hard...
Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Every day. I have to show you every day what you'll mean to me. That's on me. And we'll get there. This-- you-- are important to me. I'm going to make sure you know that at all times.' -- Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“He also knew that this woman was different from all the women who'd come before her. That part scared the shit out of him and excited him all at the same time. What if she was the one? That woman who, when a man saw her, he was instantly struck with the knowledge that he was done for. Like Mia was for Gabe. Like Bethany was for Jace. The one.' -- Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“His heart was in the right place even if he went about it all wrong.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“I don't want you to ever be touched by the gray areas I'm immersed in, baby. I want you clean. I want you to shine, just like you always do.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Falling in love is the easy part. It's everything else that happens afterward that's hard and takes work.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Then it's too bad I don't belong to you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“I think you know I want you, Josie. I certainly haven't made it a secret. But you also need to think about all I would take. I take a lot. I give more, but I take everything.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“You're not going to lose me. Never that. I'm always going to be here.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Yeah, it's you. It suits you. I wanted something to match your eyes, but I also wanted something that reflected your personality. Your vibrancy.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“And that makes Mia sad. But it's okay. She'll have Bethany. And me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“If you're asking me if I have blood on my hands then yeah, no doubt.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“He wanted to tie her to him in ways she'd never escape. But they'd be the most loving, silken ties in the world.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“I'm more concerned with what you think.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“She's not just any woman. I don't know, man. She hits buttons that a woman have never pushed for me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“Pink is you. Definitely your color.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

“I won't lie to you, Josie. So becareful what you ask.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn

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― Misty Griffin, quote from Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish

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― Sharon Moalem, quote from Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

“Though my approach throughout the book will be positive and expository, it is worth noting from the outset that I intend to challenge this dominant paradigm in each of its main constituent parts. In general terms, this view holds the following: (1) that the Jewish context provides only a fuzzy setting, in which ‘resurrection’ could mean a variety of different things; (2) that the earliest Christian writer, Paul, did not believe in bodily resurrection, but held a ‘more spiritual’ view; (3) that the earliest Christians believed, not in Jesus’ bodily resurrection, but in his exaltation/ascension/glorification, in his ‘going to heaven’ in some kind of special capacity, and that they came to use ‘resurrection’ language initially to denote that belief and only subsequently to speak of an empty tomb or of ‘seeing’ the risen Jesus; (4) that the resurrection stories in the gospels are late inventions designed to bolster up this second-stage belief; (5) that such ‘seeings’ of Jesus as may have taken place are best understood in terms of Paul’s conversion experience, which itself is to be explained as a ‘religious’ experience, internal to the subject rather than involving the seeing of any external reality, and that the early Christians underwent some kind of fantasy or hallucination; (6) that whatever happened to Jesus’ body (opinions differ as to whether it was even buried in the first place), it was not ‘resuscitated’, and was certainly not ‘raised from the dead’ in the sense that the gospel stories, read at face value, seem to require.11 Of course, different elements in this package are stressed differently by different scholars; but the picture will be familiar to anyone who has even dabbled in the subject, or who has listened to a few mainstream Easter sermons, or indeed funeral sermons, in recent decades.”
― N.T. Wright, quote from The Resurrection of the Son of God

“As Churchill correctly noted, the horrors he listed were perpetrated by the ‘mighty educated States’. Indeed, they were quite beyond the power of individuals, however evil. It is a commonplace that men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of avowed malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of legally constituted states, invested with all the seeming moral authority of parliaments and congresses and courts of justice! The destructive capacity of the individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless. Expand the state and that destructive capacity necessarily expands too, pari passu.”
― Paul Johnson, quote from Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

“Under what circumstances does such outrage thrive? The territory of Utah, glorious as it may be, spiked by granite peaks and red jasper rocks, cut by echoing canyons and ravines, spread upon a wide basin of gamma grass and wandering streams, this land of blowing snow and sand, of iron, copper, and the great salten sea.”
― David Ebershoff, quote from The 19th Wife

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