“The end of her life was only the beginning of her story.
Sweet Sleep”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“The sunlight blinded her. She felt purified by its rays. She had been in the dark for so long, and in so many ways.☥
Children of Ankh series”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“The strands of her golden hair danced through her liquid nightmare to an unheard song. She was gone.
"Enlightenment"
C.O.A series”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“She could just kill them. If she did they would be healed again in moments ☥ She'd better let sleeping demons lie.
"Enlightenment." Coming soon”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“Unfortunately on the road to Ankh everyone you love must die.
Children of Ankh series”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed... Whatever floats your boat.
Tiberius of Triad
C.O.A series”
― Kim Cormack, quote from Sweet Sleep
“Scratching off a postcard to Charlie Taylor, Orville expressed the same spirit in a lighter vein. Flying machine market has been very unsteady the past two days. Opened yesterday morning at about 208 (100% means even chance of success) but by noon had dropped to 110. These fluctuations would have produced a panic, I think, in Wall Street, but in this quiet place it only put us to thinking and figuring a little.”
― David McCullough, quote from The Wright Brothers
“It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society—more important, even, than honest or decent—is identifiable. Even when Libby’s evil—perhaps most of all when she’s evil—she’s easy to categorize, to stick to a board with a pin like some scientific specimen. Those men in Stillwater are terrified of her because being terrified lets them know who she is—it keeps them safe. Imagine how much harder it would be to say, yes, she’s a woman capable of terrible anger and violence, but she’s also someone who’s tried desperately to be a nurturer, to be a good and constructive human being. If you accept all that, if you allow that inside she’s not just one or the other, but both, what does that say about all the other women in town? How will you ever be able to tell what’s actually going on in their hearts—and heads? Life in the simple village would suddenly become immensely complicated. And so, to keep that from happening, they separate things. The normal, ordinary woman is defined as nurturing and loving, docile and compliant. Any female who defies that categorization must be so completely evil that she’s got to be feared, feared even more than the average criminal—she’s got to be invested with the powers of the Devil himself. A witch, they probably would have called her in the old days. Because she’s not just breaking the law, she’s defying the order of things.”
― Caleb Carr, quote from The Angel of Darkness
“Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father—but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Exile's Honor
“I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Emotionally Weird
“A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.
As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.”
― Seth Godin, quote from Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
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