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“My face felt like it had just been rammed into a brick wall . . . because it had.”
― Jon Scieszka, Other Worlds

“I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.'

Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.'
Do you know what they fought about?' said I.
No,' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Esto es la realidad. Esto que acepto a cada momento como la realidad y que no puede ser, no puede ser.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.”
― Nicholas Evans