A friend of mine posted this quote on his blog yesterday. I thought it was so fitting to some of my current challenges that I would wickedly steal it:

"The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. They avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe." ~Ivy (Kim Harrison: A Fistful of Charms)