Mythius

“Because the hardest thing about sacrifice is not knowing if it’ll be worth it. What’s the point in taking the bullet if the person behind you in the charge loses heart, dithers, runs away? You may as well have stayed at home. You only have one life after all. It can be very hard to know when to throw it away.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Human history is full of social conventions designed to salve the consciences of the mighty and curb the ambitions of the small.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“Every revolutionary group I ever knew spent far longer clutching for how to describe what they were than talking about what they were going to do.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay