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People Life Lessons Trust Disappointment Caring Star Wars Star Wars Quote

Source: Star Wars: Lando's Luck

“Momma said that's why you had to be wary. "Janie, you mark my words: You be careful who you trust. You never know when the man you married is gonna turn around and try to take a nibble out of your neck.”

Trust Caution Zombies Husbands

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“The easiest lie to tell is the one that people want to believe.”

Truth Courage Lies

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“The Force is not so simple, and neither are the emotions of living creatures. Most Jedi have felt the temptation of the dark side. It is only natural. But we resist it. It is a deliberate path to the dark, not a series of bad days. Being a Jedi is about choosing the light over and over again.”

Inspirational Goodness Self Improvement The Force Goodness And Evil

Book:A Test of Courage

Source: A Test of Courage

“Why are all pretty boys insane?”

Boys Insane Pretty Boys

Book:Promise of Shadows

Source: Promise of Shadows

“So don't let nobody tell you any different about the old days. Life is hard now, nothing but suffering, but some kinds of suffering is easier to bear than others.”

Suffering Surviving Old Days Life Is Hard Enduring Persisting

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power. Luckily there will always be people like me to stop them”

Sin Power Sinning Sinners

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“...because there's nothing better than the memories of others when you're little and have no stories of your own.”

Memories Childhood Youth Storytelling

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. I guess it should have been obvious to everyone right then that I wasn't going to have a normal life.”

Alternate History Infanticide Justina Ireland

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“It was the midwife that tried to do me in. Truth be told, it wasn't really her fault. What else is a good Christian woman going to do when a Negro comes flying out from between the legs of the richest white woman in Haller County, Kentucky?”

Racism Childbirth Alternate History Midwifery

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“And I suppose I might have grown up better, might have become a proper house girl or even taken Aunt Aggie's place as House Negro. I might have been a good girl if it had been in the cards. But all of that was dashed to hell two days after I was born, when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.”

Slavery Zombies Alternate History

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“We ain't supposed to carry firearms when traveling into town but I'm always ready for someone to try and take a bite outta me, especially at the university. Everyone knows that academics are the most ruthless cutthroats around.”

Professors Be Prepared Academia Cutthroats

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“Wherever did they find you?" "At the junction of hard luck and bad times," I answer. It's something that my momma says.”

Dark Humor Bad Times Hard Luck Rock And A Hard Place

Book:Dread Nation Sneak Peek

Source: Dread Nation Sneak Peek

“Momma used to say there were lots of ways to survive. Don't e afraid to pretend to be something you aren't, Jane. Some times a little subterfuge and chicanery is in order and the quickest way to achieve one's goal. It ain't hard to imagine Ida pretending to be just another dumb colored girl in order to make it out here. Survival by any means necessary.”

Survival Hiding Pretend Subterfuge Chicanery Lying To Others

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“My momma always said the best way to get what you want from people is to give them what they think they want. They expected me to be stupid, so I used that to our advantage.”

Lying Expectations Advantage Sneaky

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“Sometimes you have to live down to people's expectations, Kate. If you can do that, you'll get much further in life.”

Lying Expectations Sneaky

Book:Dread Nation

Source: Dread Nation

“The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper. I remember what my sister said long ago: You must control the darkness. You can’t ever give in to it. But the shadows want to make me happy, and I deserve a little happiness”

Happiness Darkness Control Shadows Zephyr

Book:Promise of Shadows

Source: Promise of Shadows

“But loyalty is to be admired. It is a rare trait indeed in these fraught times.”

Loyalty Admiration Star Wars Star Wars Quote Lando Calrissian

Book:Star Wars: Lando's Luck

Source: Star Wars: Lando's Luck

“Well, then, dueling with me should be fun, because I like to use a little bit of everything. You can critique my form. That should be a nice change for you." Vernestra winked as she said it, and Reath found himself flushing.”

Flirting Jedi High Republic Lightsaber Form

Book:Out of the Shadows

Source: Out of the Shadows

“Your grandma used to always tell me that just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't successful. All things end at some point.”

Light Success Metaphor Happy End Circle Over Black Enough

Book:Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Source: Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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