“ Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. Linda W. Yezak
“ Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times. Compton Gage
“ He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together: Compton Gage