Octavio

“Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“You would put yourself in serious danger throughout your life, time and time again, because you could not read it as such and because it was so familiar. You would seek out hurtful people and situations in hopes that you would one day be strong enough to conquer them.”
― V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Apology