I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. - Holly Lisle
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
- Holly Lisle
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others. - Holly Lisle
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while … - Holly Lisle
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while …
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them… - Holly Lisle
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them…
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. - Holly Lisle
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or to… - Holly Lisle
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or to…
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world… - Holly Lisle
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world…
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. - Holly Lisle
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself. - Holly Lisle
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
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