“As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.”
― The Power of One: The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author
― The Power of One: The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author
“He said he had not seen much other than change for four years, and he guessed the promise of it was part of what made up the war frenzy in the early days. The powerful draw of new faces, new places, new lives. And new laws whereunder you might kill all you wanted and not be jailed, but rather be decorated. Men talked of war as if they committed it to preserve what they had and what they believed. But Inman now guessed it was boredom with the repetition of the daily rounds that had made them take up weapons. The endless arc of the sun, wheel of seasons. War took a man out of that circle of regular life a made a season of its own, not much dependent on anything else.”
― Cold Mountain: A Novel
― Cold Mountain: A Novel
“our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
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