“To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“In Yuan" Alizadeh whispered to Kiram, "they have a word for a man who fights a darkness he cannot defeat."
"What is it?" Kiram asked.
"A fool," Alizadeh replied.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“He may say he is different. He may want to be different. He may even go so far as to become your lover. But he'll always feel guilty and dirty. He'll be ashamed to be seen with you and try to blame you for his own desires. He'll claim you seduced him or that you are somehow irresistible because you're Haldiim. If the two of you are discovered together, he'll press charges to save himself. That's how Cadeleonian men are.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“The penance is the most important part. It shows everyone that he’s serious. You know, it’s almost like a kind of ceremony. It proves the strength of his conviction. It shows everyone that he doesn’t care how much he may suffer, he’ll still beat the crap out of anyone who threatens you.”
“But I don’t like the idea of someone else being whipped on my account.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“No, this length suits you. Lends you an air of a creature that has not yet been tamed.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.”
― Elizabeth Haydon, quote from The Floating Island
“On occasion, people who tried to write family members living at Site X by addressing the letters to “Oak Ridge” got those letters returned to sender with a note reading simply: “There is no such place as Oak Ridge, Tennessee.”
― Denise Kiernan, quote from The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
“I wish – I wish I’d at least kissed you. Just once.”
― Jasinda Wilder, quote from Falling Under
“Even Austrian landladies recognise the hand of destiny at work.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Splendour Falls
“En un mundo que prefiere la seguridad a la justicia, hay cada vez más gente que aplaude el sacrificio de la justicia en los altares de la seguridad. En las calles de las ciudades, se celebran las ceremonias. Cada vez que un delincuente cae acribillado, la sociedad siente alivio ante la enfermedad que la acosa. La muerte de cada malviviente surte efectos farmacéuticos sobre los bienvivientes. La palabra farmacia viene de phármakos, que era el nombre que daban los griegos a las víctimas humanas de los sacrificios ofrendados a los dioses en tiempos de crisis.”
― Eduardo Galeano, quote from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
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