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“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions”
― Robin Hood

“If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. ”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood

“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?”
― Supa Nova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body

“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone’s always worse off than you, and you don’t feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn’t that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was green. What more did he need to know?”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there--hanging between the bare branches of the trees--was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“The hood was strangely comforting, but comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“He was a drug dealer.â€� It hurts to say that. “And possibly a gang member.â€�

“Why was he a drug dealer? Why are so many people in our neighborhood drug dealers?�

I remember what Khalil said—he got tired of choosing between lights and food. “They need money,� I say. “And they don’t have a lot of other ways to get it."

"Right. Lack of opportunities," Daddy says. "Corporate America don't bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain't quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don't prepare us well enough.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“An end to my fear of being alone. An end to a soul’s solitude, when death at last arrives. There is something in that, something in there, that comforts.”
― Steven Erikson, Fall of Light

“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate in size, but the largest was the capital, Atro City. For the connoisseur of fast-foods, Albrechtsâ€� famous hotdogs and coldcats were sold fresh from his stall (Albrecht’s Takeaways) on Lupini Square. For the sake of his own mental health he had temporarily removed Hot Stuff Blend from the menu. The city was home to Atro City University, which taught everything from algebra and make-up application to advanced stamp collecting; and it was also home to the planet-famous bounty hunter â€� Beck the Badfeller. Beck was a legend in his own lifetime. If Deanna had any folklore, then Beck the Badfeller was one of its main features. He was the local version of Robin Hood, the Davy Crockett of Deanna. The Local rumor mill had it he was so good he could find the missing day in a leap year. Once, so the story goes, he even found a missing sock.”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

“I see your manners have not improved with time."
He crooked one side of his mouth into a grin. "Time was never a factor in my manners.”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood.”
― Deyth Banger

“The wolf rolls out red carpet, remnants of Red Riding Hood. (Le loup déroule le tapis rouge, - Ce qui reste du Chaperon Rouge)”
― Charles de Leusse

“He followed him like a she-snake follows her mate’s killer, the blanket pulled in a hood over his head and his head filled with a thousand questions.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Clearing tables? We're bloody outlaws, not maids. Next you know he'll be asking us to wash our own laundry. Then what would my mum do?”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“My mother once said a man should measure his worth not by the women he has tamed, but by the ones he has let run free.”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“The wind, my good friend, the wind calls and I am but her slave to answer.”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“What use have I for gold? The earth is my floor, the heavens my roof. The Merry Men my company. What more do I need what gold would buy?”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“Father, no!" Isabelle cried. "It's a trap. You must get out of here now!"
"Darling, of course it's a trap," Robin said. "These sort of gatherings always are.”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“We go on not because we have to, but because we want to. We live the life we would have wanted for them.”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“Find the place that calls your heart.”
― Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

“It's the freaking American way--you start out in a dangerous craphole and work hard so you can someday move up to a somewhat less dangerous craphole. And finally maybe you get a mansion.”
― George Saunders, Pastoralia

“The cascade of sudden deaths, inexplicable and outrageous accidents, miserable ends and terrible murders filled every abode, every corner and every hovel in a spreading tide, a most fatal flood creeping out through the hapless city on all sides. No age was spared, no weight of injustice tipped these scales. Death took them all: well born and destitute, the ill and the healthy, criminal and victim, the unloved and the cherished.

So many last breaths: coughed out, sighed, whimpered, bellowed in defiance, in disbelief, in numbed wonder. And if such breaths could coalesce, could form a think, dry, pungent, fugue of dismay, in the city on this night not a single globe of blue fire could be seen.

There were survivors. Many, many survivors - indeed, more survived than died - but alas, it was a close run thing, this measure, this fell harvest.

The god walked eastward, out from Gadrobi District and into Lakefront, and, from there, up into the Estates.

This night was not done. My, not done at all.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“Truth is, for every galaxy that far surpasses every planet, there is a Hood. In every Hood, there is birthed a remnant of greatness and uniqueness like no other. Against all odds, that remnant shall be a mighty force that changes the gameâ€�!”
― Mya A Chavis, A Sovereign Pursuit: Stolen Justice Redeemed Limited Edition with Illustration's