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“Be like Josiah. When our lives disagree with the Word of God. I want to say, “This Word is true, and I must change.”

— Joshua Harris

“There was always, among them, such a stew of envy and longing. They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. They…

— Laini Taylor

“Because the only way to resist, our husbands had taught us, was by not resisting.”

— Julie Otsuka

“Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?”

— Todd Strasser

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“He'd tried so hard to fight his fear, but there was a something liberating about giving up the battle and recognizing his fear was…

— Marie Sexton

“He abhorred people who said things that hadn’t been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as…

— Ian McEwan

“It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how people were…

— D.J. Molles

“But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the…

— Thomas Hardy

“I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him…

— Orson Scott Card