There are always miracles where there are children, and fascination for any tale that opens their eyes to marvels, whether or not they are sensible m… - Esther Friesner

Dignity and self-assurance are everything to a woman, especially a naked one.

His salvation flunkies. Mouthing off a hundred and one misapplied Biblical justifications a minute for why they can split heads, kick butt, and burn anything or anyone who tells them No. They are still going to Heaven. They’ll be the only ones there, but what the hey!

The winter of ignorance could come, the cold stoked by a thousand bonfires. There would always be loveless souls ready to kindle such blazes with their neighbors’ books, or dreams, or children.