“I don't know," I said. "Whether or not he can write his own name seems to have very little impact on his ability to be an ass.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“What I caught that winter was a memory of a purpose.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“I have always been much cleverer in retrospect.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“this may come as an immense surprise to you, considering how highly you esteem your intellect, yet I must confess there is a great deal in this world about which you know less than nothing. I say 'less than' because you are informed incorrectly-and being both tenacious and pompous, you cling to this misinformation as a pit bull to the bone, which makes you far more dangerous and contemptible than even the stupidest of men.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“Well,” he said, “and this is only my own way of thinking, mind, but when you’re doing something you love—really love—you can’t let the way others play the game get in the way of that, if you follow. It don’t matter if your coach is hassling you, or whether you don’t like how some of your teammates indulge in the sport. When you’re out there, you’ve got a goal to accomplish, and you can’t see to letting all that mishmash weigh you down.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“And then, after a period that seemed both as swift as mere minutes and as endless as days, it was done.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“I must say the efficiency of this nation in condemning a man is simply astounding. - Margrave Royston”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than just the physical side, my knuckles bruising his throat and his back arching for all his so-called defiance.
'I don't care what I am, so long as you're afraid of me.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
“It was a rare man who had the natural proclivity to do the right thing when the wrong one might save him a share in the punishment or blame.”
― Jaida Jones, quote from Havemercy
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“Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?”
― Chip Kidd, quote from The Cheese Monkeys
“People almost never change without first feeling understood.”
― quote from Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
“The Cooperation Theory that is presented in this book is based upon an investigation of individuals who pursue their own self-interest without the aid of a central authority to force them to cooperate with each other.”
― quote from The Evolution of Cooperation
“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a an was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were to uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don't know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutly necessary to make a civilized society.”
― John (Fire) Lame Deer, quote from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
“There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.”
― J. Nozipo Maraire, quote from Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
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