“You will never again be the person who had never tried tacos, because after you try one that person no longer exists. In a way he'll die, and someone new and more experienced will take his place." And”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
                                
                                
                                    “So I squeeze his hand, and it's really warm and hand-shaped, and we walk around the beach, and explore a little”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
                                
                                
                                    “If I open up, it gets me, Dad. It gets me, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to stand it.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
                                
                                
                                    “Life just gets better. Which is not to say that it's always easy.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
                                
                                
                                    “I am worthy. I am enough. Safe. Secure. Worthy. Enough.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “I am a whole, complete person, worthy just as I am. 
And I am enough.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
                                
                                
                                “But, Andromeda-" Peri exclaimed. "You are the 'most' important person in this scheme!"
"I- what?" she said. "You must be joking!"
Peri shook his massive head. "On the contrary. You are the only person here who has actually been inside the Palace. You know everything there is to know about it. Without that, we can't even begin to mount an attack, now, can we?"
"At least not the kind of attack we can manage with as few people as we have, and as untrained or half trained," Adam agreed. "You are the key to our plan."
Of all the things she had heard today this was the most astonishing. She was important. She was vital. She who had never been anything to anyone-
"Besides," Gina said with a grin, "I can teach you to use something that you won't have to get in close to use. A sling. Believe me, I've seen a good sling-man take down seasoned fighters many a time."
Andie raised her chin and looked into Peri's eyes. "Then you have me," she said, but could not help adding, "for what it's worth.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Mercedes Lackey, quote from One Good Knight
                                
                            
                                “[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed ruthlessness and those of a less gullible nature called sociopathy. But sometimes, just through his sheer unthinking brusqueness and inability to think through the consequences of a remark, he said what everybody else was only thinking. A comic poet working in obscene doggerel.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Algebraist
                                
                            
                                “And he worked himself, worked himself. He had made up his mind to be President, and he was demonic in his drive.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Robert A. Caro, quote from Master of the Senate
                                
                            
                                “Ariovistus did not come to an engagement, he discovered this to be the reason--that among the Germans it was the custom for their matrons to pronounce from lots and divination whether it were expedient that the battle should be engaged in or not; that they had said, "that it was not the will of heaven that the Germans should conquer, if they engaged in battle before the new moon.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Gaius Julius Caesar, quote from The Conquest of Gaul
                                
                            
                                “There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Philip Yancey, quote from The Jesus I Never Knew
                                
                            
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