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While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children. — Huey Morgan

Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful. — Epicurus

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. — Jim Clark

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself. — John Barry

Let your soul be washed by the waves of love to feel the joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female. — Laozi

Looking for goshwawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how. — Helen Macdonald

The lights come on and my future returns in the glare. — Meredith Hall

The town knew about darkness.
It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of the human soul — Stephen King

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ... — Anita Shreve

It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis)
She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I have yet to meet an ignorant man whose roots are not embedded in my soul. — Kahlil Gibran

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different. — Margaret Atwood