"America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself."

-- Steven Pinker

#Cowboy Quotes #Gun Quotes #Europe Quotes

“It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.”
“People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers.”
“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”
“Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.”
“You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. Itâ€™s ok to cry..!! You can overcome”
“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.23, Penguin
“Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.”
“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

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