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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.


N. K. Jemisin

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KELLY JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn m...
LEMONY SNICKET Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family...
LEMONY SNICKET I just don't understand it," said Klaus, which was not something he said very often.
Violet nod...
LEMONY SNICKET She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, tec...
PETER SINGER These developments were counter to all historical trends, and could not have been foreseen. This sit...
JILL E. BARAD I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a...
SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.
LEMONY SNICKET The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other y...
JOHN F. KENNEDY They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.
HEIDI SCHULZ Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
SARAH J. MAAS I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.
SARAH J. MAAS And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel...
SARAH J. MAAS I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
MITCH ALBOM I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.
SARAH J. MAAS She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want...
SARAH J. MAAS It was an unfortunate series of events; they were trying to do a job.
DONNA CORDOVA Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
J.A. REDMERSKI A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. B...
ROLLO MAY We were always involved, ... Rich was active in the ward organization, the 11th ward organization, w...
WILLIAM DALEY I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinati...
KEVIN KWAN oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER blue-gold sky, fresh cloud,
emerald-black mountain, trees
on rocky ledges,

o...
BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' wr...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH [...] orang-orang sering mengklaim lapar akan kebenaran tapi jarang yang menyukai rasanya ketika dis...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is a uniquely American industry. Almost all of the technological developments in software and har...
ALAN MECKLER Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!
LATOYA ALSTON Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would...
PAT CADIGAN Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

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N. T. WRIGHT The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvena...
N. ROBERT HAMMER We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party ana...
N. ROBERT HAMMER There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is...
N. ROBERT HAMMER One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
N. ROBERT HAMMER The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
N. ROBERT HAMMER I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. MURRAY EDWARDS It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the las...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can cre...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern ...
A. N. WILSON Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
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