Quotes about evening
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“Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.

Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

Happiness, People, Forgiveness

“You’ve changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.” He paused. “Not that you should leave me,” he added hastily”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Change

“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Freedom

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Forgiveness, Time

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.”

Axel Munthe book The Story of San Michele

Preface, 1928
The Story of San Michele (1929)

Books, Hope, Music, Bird

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Life, Food, Soul, Water

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali book Infidel

Source: Infidel (2007), Chapter 15: Threats

Bird, Time

“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”

Kelly Link (1969) American writer

Source: Pretty Monsters: Stories

“We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

Faith

“If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”

Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) Polish historian

World, History

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

Source: Thérèse

Effort, Silence, Passion

“You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Guy

“Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

京にても京なつかしや時鳥 kyou nitemo kyou natsukashi ya hototogisu Classical Japanese Database, Translation #55 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/55 (Translation: Robert Hass) Bird of time &ndash; in Kyoto, pining for Kyoto. Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 43 (Translation: Lucien Stryk) <br class="br">Individual poems

Cry

“But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as
if she were losing her mind. And when he
kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Kiss

“A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.”

Jack Kerouac book Book of Sketches

Source: Book of Sketches

Dreams, Memory

“And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

World, Hope, Loss

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…. they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Books, Lying, Time

“Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Men, Problem

“I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”

Dick Francis Whip Hand

Source: Whip Hand

Life

“The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”

Thomas Merton book No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

Love, Men, God

“but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.”

Shūsaku Endō book Silence

Source: Silence

Life

“If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Beauty

“If you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

Way

“I finally broke into the prison
I found my place in the chain
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"The Old Revolution"
Songs from a Room (1969)

“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.”

Ernest Hemingway book To Have and Have Not

Source: To Have and Have Not

People, Coffee

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Life, People, Books, Thinking

“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Confidence, Dependency

“Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.”

Tess Gerritsen book Body Double

Source: Body Double

Marriage

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

World, Beauty

“Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Source: Death on the Nile

Death, World, Personality

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

God, People, Books

“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Love, Family, Parent

“It was over before I even had a chance.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Chance

“I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totallylife. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is…”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

People, Grass, Sincerity

“Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Books, Reading

“It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Learning, Time

“I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Betrayals

Sport

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Love, Life, Friendship, Deep

“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Children, Stupidity, School

“I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Source: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Books, World

“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

“Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?”

“Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Lying

“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Heart

“Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

People, Music

“Unless you call attention
to your presence
who will know you're there?

Even a country
has to weave and wave a flag
as proof of its existence.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

Country

“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Life, God, People, Way

“How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

Hurt

“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”

Elizabeth Bear (1971) American novelist

Secret, Lying, Heart

“So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough.
And I will believe the same about you.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Thinking

“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”

Jean M. Auel (1936) Novelist

Thinking, Learning, Reading

“Even the sweetest girl needs a hard center, or she's not gonna make it out there!!" - Sakura”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 09: Turning the Tables

Girl

“I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Alcohol

“Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 8

“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Thinking, Help

“Oh, good grief! I’ve never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he’s dying. I’m in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam)
I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“So he has no head'
'Thats usually what headless means'
'No head at all?'
'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?'
'Its just kind of silly even for us…”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

1961, Inaugural Address
Context: If a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Life

“I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Life, Pain, Sun

“What hope is there?” I asked. “If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”

“There isn’t,” he said. “We’re on our own. And we have to make the choices we think are best for our own survival.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Hope, Angels, Thinking

“one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Love, Way, Imagination, Baby

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Love, Appearance

“Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

People

“She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Beauty, Feeling, Sun

“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

People, Way, Thinking

“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”

Iain Banks book The Bridge

Source: The Bridge

People, Fools, Thinking

“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Water, Time

“Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Men, Moms

“Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

God, Fate

“He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Love, Memory, Hurt

“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Men, Age, Hope, Study

“Achilles makes a sound like choking. “There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.” His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector’s throat.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Men, Star

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

Isaac Asimov book The Caves of Steel

Source: The Caves of Steel

Knowledge

“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: CAT'S EYE.

Painting

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Love, Girl, Boy, Time

“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Pain, Truth

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Love, Hate, World, Fear

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Dreams

“Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Feeling

“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Life, Happiness, Sadness, Feeling

“If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Suffering

“Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
p33”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

It's a Magical World

Help

“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Success

“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Water

“Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Life, Dead

“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”

Tom Bissell (1974) American journalist

Truth

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”

Emil Ludwig (1881–1948) German writer

Die Entscheidung, sich zum ersten Mal zu küssen, ist die wichtigste in jeder Liebesbeziehung. Es verändert die Beziehung von zwei Menschen wesentlich stärker als letzendlich die Kapitulation; denn dieser Kuss trägt die Kapitulation schon in sich.
Of Life and Love (2005), p. 29 [Über das Glück und die Liebe, 1940]

Love, People, Kiss, Decision

“a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
Source: Just Listen

World, Thinking, Change, Personality

“I was always a reluctant actor! I continue to be that. I announce a project, the camera rolls and I'm happy. I'm fortunate to be doing leading parts even now. Except for my mentor K. Balachander, for whom I can do even a walk-on part. When he directed his 100th film, I just walked in to do a small role. I just clowned around on camera.”

Kamal Haasan (1954) Indian actor

Aamir's choice of films makes Kamal Haasan happy

Happiness, Parting

“There are girls who do not like real life… Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships [with homosexuals] will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to them without their having to take too horribly much notice. Even those who are sufficiently sophisticated to know that this will not be so persist in these relationships. They provide an opportunity to lavish emotion on a pseudo-man without paying the price that in heterosexual circumstances would be inevitable.”

Quentin Crisp book The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 19

Love, Life, Friendship, Girl

“As for one-party rule, it was questioned neither by the Left Opposition nor by the Right [wing of the Communist party]. All were prisoners of their own doctrine and their own past: all had worked with a will to create the apparatus of violence that crushed them. Bukharin’ s hopeless attempt to form a league with Kamenev was no more than a pitiful epilogue to his career. In November 1929 the deviationists performed a public act of penance, but even this did not save them. Stalin’ s victory was complete; the collapse of the Bukharinite opposition meant the triumph of autocracy in the party and in the country. In December 1929 Stalin’ s fiftieth birthday was celebrated as a major historical event, and from this point we may date the "cult of personality". Trotsky’ s prophecy of 1903 had come true: party rule had become Central Committee rule, and this in turn had becorne the personal tyranny of a dictator.”

Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas

Source: Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown, pp. 42-3

Birthday, Question, Past, Victory

“After that searing meeting with those female soldiers I was even more determined that I was going to achieve real change in our culture.”

David Morrison (1956) Australian army general

Address at the International Women's Day Conference (2013)

Change

“The first thing the average white Latin American player does when he comes to the States is associate with other whites. He doesn't want to be seen with Latin Negroes, even from his own country, because he's afraid people might think he's colored.”

Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player

As quoted in “Roberto Clementeː Pounder from Puerto Rico” by John Devaney, in Baseball Stars of 1964 (1964), edited by Ray Robinson, p. 150
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People, Color, Thinking, Country

“There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us, doesn't lead to further peace but to further degradation and exploitation. We're responsible for not only what we do but for what is in our power to stop. Before we can speak of peace, we have to speak honestly of stopping, by any and all means possible, those who have declared war on the world and on us. Those who destroy wont stop because we ask nicely. There is only one language that they understand, and everyone here knows what it is. Yet we don't speak of it openly.”

Derrick Jensen book A Language Older Than Words

A Language Older Than Words (2000)

War, World, Peace, Understanding