"Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again."

“When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.”

“The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.”

Source : "Stephanie Leonidas Talks DEFIANCE, What Drew Her to the Character, Her Knife Training, The Make-Up Process, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 20, 2013.

“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”

“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”

“The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously....”

Source : "Hero Federal Appeals Judge Burns Down the Case Against Gay Marriage" by Michelle Dean, gawker.com. September 5, 2014.

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.”

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”