“Instinct told me it was dangerous. 
 I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                    “I promise I'll stay as safe as I can. And since Zay refuses to leave me alone, I figure if things get bad, I can always shove him into the line of fire while I run like hell.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                    “...Magic is a heartless bitch, and she's had me by the throat for years.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                    “Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                    “Sometimes it is good to know your limits. Good to know you still have limits. It makes you human. And I wanted to stay that way. Zayvion”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “Wow. Why don’t you start with authority? Authority of what?’’ ‘‘Magic.’’ ‘‘Really. Magic experts? Are there magic lectures? Magic bake sales? Magic bingo night?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                    “Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself?’’ Zay”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Devon Monk, quote from Magic to the Bone
                                
                                
                                “Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
                                
                            
                                “Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Hugh Nibley, quote from Approaching Zion
                                
                            
                                “...people have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
                                
                            
                                “Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".”
                                
                                
                                    ― Tyler Perry, quote from Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
                                
                            
                                “In a note to a West Point classmate, Eisenhower wrote, “There is no use denying that at times discouragement has piled on top of discouragement.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Rick Atkinson, quote from An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
                                
                            
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