Jamie Bormes

“You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm”
― Jack London, To Build a Fire and Other Stories

“Holly, do you trust me?”
Holly groaned. “Artemis, don’t ask me that. I just know one of your outrageous plans is coming.”
“Do you trust me?”
“Yes,” Holly sighed. “I do. More than anyone.”
― Eoin Colfer

“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”
― Christopher Paolini

“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”
― Charles Darwin