William Babbitt

“As we pretend to be brave, we become so.”
― Pierce brown, Morning Star

“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”
― Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

“In a storm, you don't tie two boats together. They'll drag each other down.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I almost cave. But I know by now that voice of reason is the enemy. Inside me there is a coward who fears discomfort. That coward will offer solace in the form of excuses. But it is the coward who grooms a man for his defeats. The coward who makes him accept them because he is accustomed to finding a good reason to quit. The coward inside can only be killed one way. I toss down my pack and don my training kit.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer