#th

This never happens again," I said quietly. "You try to get to me through other mortals again and I'll kill you." Mavra's rotted lips turned up at one corner. "No, you won't," she said in her dusty voice. "You don't have that kind of power." "I can get it," I said. "But you won't," she responded, mockery in her tone. "It wouldn't be right." I stared at her for a full ten seconds before I said, in a very quiet voice, "I've got a fallen angel tripping all over herself to give me more power. Queen Mab has asked me to take the mantle of Winter Knight twice now. I've read Kemmler's book. I know how the Darkhallow works. And I know how to turn necromancy against the Black Court." Mavra's filmed eyes flashed with anger. I continued to speak quietly, never raising my voice. "So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even think you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you. Personally. I'm picking up every weapon I can get. And I'm using them to kill you. Horribly. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#threat #anger

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to actually decide what they believe, declare what they believe, and then live by it? Whether it’s religion, politics, sports, or societal norms. It is not our place to tell our kids what to think. It is our place to teach our kids to think correctly. If we do this, we need have no fear of what they will decide for themselves and how strongly they’ll stand behind it. A man will follow his own convictions to his death, but he’ll only follow another man’s convictions until he steps in manure. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#being #danger #exterminated #factor #history

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#actions #control #his #man #thinking

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#failed #failure #government #merely #slavery

Should I go up one flight of stairs and then come back down, or should I go down one flight of stairs and then come back up? Same destination, same distance, same amount of work, but two different paths. Who knows, I might find love on one path. Probably the path I don’t choose. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #humor #love #odd

They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first? ↗

— Amy Jenkins

#thoughts #funny

Even the young are not remaining young at heart anymore. Nowadays people stop committing juvenile offenses before they even get into their twenties. ↗

— Bauvard

#delinquency #funny #humor #youth #funny

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#enslavement #far-reaching #goes #history #most

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#even #inferiority #must #places #schools