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When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#farewell #jem-carstairs #tessa-gray #tessa-gray

It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #vampire-romance #vampires #librarians

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants. ↗

— Scott Adams

#being #company #creativity #elsewhere #fact

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

#between #cape #could #days #feet

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. ↗

— Steve Albini

#am #case #commercially #crazy #currently

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#country #every #may #politics #today

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. ↗

— Steve Allen

#patriotism #totalitarianism

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#endless #financially #how #hurt #new

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. ↗