“The first of our losses happened on September 11, 2001. Years later, during my freshman year at college, a popular topic of conversation in the dining hall was where you were on 9/11. I learned that no matter how far away you were from New York that day, no matter how distant your connection to that day was, no matter how much lower than zero the count of the people you lost on that day was, if you were white, 9/11 happened to you personally, with blunt and scalding force. Because the antithesis of an American is an immigrant and because we could not be victims in the public eye, we became suspects. And so September 11 changed the immigration landscape forever.”
Source: The Undocumented Americans
“Never take your eyes from your enemy, Imanishaketheto. Never underestimate them. When you think you've won, they will show their true colors and their strength. You must be ready.”
Source: Of Captivity & Kings
“Do not underestimate the ‘power of underestimation’. They can’t stop you, if they don’t see you coming.”
Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development
“A man who does not respect his enemies hastens to his grave.”
“People underestimated me throughout my life... You pay for it in other ways, but it means you can slip through the gaps. Like wind in the walls, like ghosts in a house, hearing everything, saying nothing....”
Source: The Christmas Murder Game
“I hadn't realized having ones life saved could be so humiliating.”
Source: The Girl of Fire and Thorns
“The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.”
“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.”
Source: The Last Four Things
“It was said that if you duped death, if you kept someone alive who should have died, then you might be called to die in their place. Energy was demanded, if not from one source, then from another.”
Source: Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves
“Never believe everything you read; all writers are liars, it’s what we do.”
Source: Queen Kegel and the Arena Planet: A Smutpunk Epic