"Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.”

Source : Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.48, Moody Publishers
“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”
“Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.”

Source : Tobsha Learner (1996). “Quiver: a book of erotic tales”
“General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.”
“If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.
“There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.”
“After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.”
“The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?”

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