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41 " These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. "
― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)
42 " Instinct in your best adviser. Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best. "
43 " She wanted no invisible sky fathers hanging over the Town, mandating irrational behavior. "
44 " These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. "
45 " These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. —The Glynn Queen’s Words, as compiled by Father Tyler "
46 " but Katie recognized the great value of having so many different people in one community, each of them singular, each with gifts and faults and interests and oddities. They created a tapestry, all of them, just as the characters in a book might. It was the lesson of the Town, taught to children before they could even walk: You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable. "
47 " If they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. "
48 " I see that you have a knife behind your back... You will drop your knife. - Ewen, to Brenna "
49 " History always mattered. "
50 " And if Tear’s words can’t be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The "
51 " Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. "
52 " Maybe we aren't capable of being satisfied, Kelsea thought, and the idea seemed to open a chasm inside her. Maybe utopia is beyond us. "
53 " These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. — "
54 " But even if safety were somehow achievable by force, Lear, ask yourself this: how important is safety? Is it worth steadily undermining every principle "
55 " Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left. —Father Tyler’s Collected Sermons, from the Arvath "
56 " small-mindedness fed off religion just as surely as the other way around "
57 " The butterfly effect deals in the tendency of infinitesimal variations to amplify over time. You never play around with history, because the change you thought you were making for the better is likely to cause so many unforeseen ripples that it may well add up to a net loss. Too many variables to control the outcome. "
58 " The circumstances of your birth don’t matter. Kindness and humanity are everything. "
59 " (...) have is the hell of want. "
60 " Whatever Row thought was certainly right, and he had never needed to look any deeper than that. It maddened Katie sometimes, but there was also a relief there. Row never needed to gaze backward, wondering whether he had screwed up, whether he had been unfair. The tiny mistakes he made didn't haunt him at night. "