"No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion."

“I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.”

“I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.”

“Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.”

“Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.”

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Shadow and Bone”, p.123, Hachette UK

“good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”

“In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

Source : 1937 The Olive Tree.