“Show of hands," Devon said, breaking the silence. "Who thinks we're screwed?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“I’d take a physical fight over Touchy-Feely Share Time, hands down”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“So," I said climbing to my feet and changing the subject ASAP, "I had a dream last night someone tried to burn me alive, and I'm not entirely sure it was a dream."
Devon stiffened. Chase's pupils pulsed.
Subject successfully changed.
"Now who's ready to eat?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“Being raised by a psychopath will do that to you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“I wasn't entirely sure how to reply. Blow me and Screw you both seemed like strong contenders, but the peanut gallery in my head appeared to be favoring castration.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly...Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie...”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
“This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Trial by Fire
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“I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don’t, they get close. And then they can see.”
― Kelsey Sutton, quote from Where Silence Gathers
“Their story isn't a fairytale, but that's okay, because fairytales are predictible, and sometimes boring.”
― Lindy Zart, quote from Unlit Star
“Gen 22:11–16a The story of the near-sacrifice of Isaac is traced to E. It refers to the deity as Elohim in vv. 1,3,8, and 9. But, just as Abraham’s hand is raised with the knife to sacrifice Isaac, the text says that the angel of Yahweh stops him (v. 11). The verses in which Isaac is spared refer to the deity as Yahweh (vv. 11–14). These verses are followed by a report that the angel speaks a second time and says, “… because you did not withhold your son from me….” Thus the four verses which report that Isaac was not sacrificed involve both a contradiction and a change of the name of the deity. As extraordinary as it may seem, it has been suggested that in the original version of this story Isaac was actually sacrificed, and that the intervening four verses were added subsequently, when the notion of human sacrifice was rejected (perhaps by the person who combined J and E). Of course, the words “you did not withhold your son” might mean only that Abraham had been willing to sacrifice his son. But still it must be noted that the text concludes (v. 19), “And Abraham returned to his servants.” Isaac is not mentioned. Moreover, Isaac never again appears as a character in E. Interestingly, a later midrashic tradition developed this notion, that Isaac actually had been sacrificed. This tradition is discussed in S. Spiegel’s The Last Trial (New York: Schocken, 1969; Hebrew edition 1950).”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, quote from Who Wrote the Bible?
“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.”
― Chris Bradford, quote from The Way of the Dragon
“It doesn’t actually matter where we came from, or where we’re going, or when. The only thing that matters is what we have to do while we’re here and how well we do it.”
― Katie Coyle, quote from Vivian Apple at the End of the World
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