Civil war Quote by Kelsey Brickl Download Open image ““It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”” — Kelsey Brickl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war Dangerous Dangerous world Dangerous-people Strength Strong Weak Weakness
“I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that… — Silas House Copy Share Image
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“That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“It became the strong against the weak, and, as it turns out, the strong were usually jerks.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
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“... we all need a little bit of rescuing from time to time. It doesn't make us weak.” — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t dying that she feared, it was dying bad: leaving her grandboy alone in the world, unprotected, his wounds unhealed. Death, which walked… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Praying to the Almighty, Javert?” called a voice, and Javert opened his eyes to see Rousseau and Leclerc smirking at him. Javert tipped his… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her mouth agape like a… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“Fire on the cavalry!” cried an officer from behind them. Javert raised his musket and glared with one open eye at the approaching horde.… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“In August, an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“She was an afterthought, little Martha. She was treated the way many families treated pet dogs - she had to be fed and cleaned… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was blowing somewhere… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
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“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. Then he… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
