“Sometimes Discontent is unknown to the sufferer, a shadowed thing that creeps up from behind. It had been that way for Mary. Of course she knew there were reasons for her unhappiness, there are always reasons. One thinks, I am unhappy, I am discontent, because of this or that. But such thoughts are like a painting of sorrow, not sorrow itself. Then one day it comes, hushed and ferocious, and reasons don’t matter anymore.” - The Outlander by Gil Adamson”

“The dwarf and the woman, lucky miscreants, outlanders, errors that should not exist but lived on anyway. (314)”

“I loved him right away," she said. "Almost on sight. Some things are so obvious when you look at them. And when that happens there isn't any choice.”

“Here was a man who wore his scars on the outside and held a merry heart within. How much better that was than its opposite.”

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

“God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...”

“What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!”