"A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes."

-- Jim Butcher

#Gratitude Quotes #Courage Quotes #Hero Quotes

“On Max Yasgurâ€™s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other, being part of so many people when calamity struck â€” the traffic jams, the rainstorms â€” was a life-changing experience. None of the problems damaged our spirit. In fact, they drew us closer. We recognized one another for what we were at the core, as brothers and sisters, and we embraced one another in that knowledge.”
“Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.”
“You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.”
“Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,”
“We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone elseâ€™s skin, so to speak. Thatâ€™s why we read novels, and also why we write themâ€“to experience more life.”

Source : "MysteryPeople Q&A with Steven Saylor". Interview with Scott Butki, mysterypeople.wordpress.com. March 31, 2014.
“As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.”
“I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.”
“All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.”

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