“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.” InspirationalPainVoiceSadAngerBuriedRepressedHiddenSuppressedSternness Book:Hopebreaker Source: Hopebreaker
“In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.” WorldSpiritualSpiritual QuotesMaintainingWastedSternness Author:Dada Bhagwan
“They look stern at first, do a lot of scowling, but behind their eyes, once you get them talking, there's a hurt, docile quality, possibly related to past wrongs done them, a quality I associate with the thunked-as-kids: Long ago the world turned on them in some unexpected and unpleasant way, and they are, not unreasonably, expecting that it could happen again at any moment.” HurtBrokennessMilitiaBorderMinutemenDocilitySternness Book:The Braindead Megaphone Source: The Braindead Megaphone