“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?"
"Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
Cate Tiernan
Born place: in New Orleans, The United States
Born date July 24, 1961
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“In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?”
― Lawrence Lessig, quote from Code: Version 2.0
“I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.”
― Anne Ursu, quote from Breadcrumbs
“I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse.”
― Martin Luther, quote from The Bondage of the Will
“I do not mind Bedouins,—I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Innocents Abroad
“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.”
― Iain Pears, quote from The Dream of Scipio
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