“Rationalization is foreplay with one’s conscience.”— Doug Cooper Related Quotes “The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned up in his own writing desk. A tradesman arrived with fabric she had ordered three weeks ago. Each day, some further evidence of a task half finished, a scheme incomplete. He found a novel, with her place marked.And this is it.”— Hilary Mantel “By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April’s breeze unfurl’d Here once the embattl’d farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson “Sometimes I think as adults we think of them as — because they’re small in size that they’re small in all ways — and they’re not. They have big feelings, and they have big eyes, they see things, they hear things, they’re living life just the way an adult does and I think sometimes as adults we forget that.”— Kevin Henkes