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1 " Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. "
― Don Paterson , The Book of Shadows
2 " There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. " Things about Lucia which I should never dream of stating openly." " Those are just the ones I should like to hear about most," said Diva. " Just a few little titbits. "
3 " How many words are you having trouble with, sir?" " Just the ones that I've highlighted." " I count at least a dozen, and I haven't gotten out of the first paragraph." " That's as far as I got, too. I'm not sure you and I speak the same language. "
4 " If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot. in the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark one Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so in effective in this. And that Heaven and you'll get the earth " thrown in" : aim at earth and you'll get neither. "
5 " We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius. "
― Mira Grant , Blackout (Newsflesh, #3)