Eliz Crance

“12. The common man has to fight to survive each day
But when his Lord demands his homage to pay
The common man has to fight another way
With sword or axe or spear, whatever his Lord doth say
The common man just hopes to live beyond this frightening day
And asks for the courage not to turn and run away”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

“And while I certainly remember those days with fondness, I have to admit they’re over, however much I wish they weren’t…”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“and we walked out into the sun. She was just as I had remembered her from seventy years earlier, when, aged five, I was dropped into an open cockpit at Hawkinge field and became mesmerized by the power and beauty of the Supermarine Spitfire. The long, lean lines, only slightly degraded by the bubble Perspex dome behind the pilot’s cockpit; the recognizable-anywhere elliptical wings, the genius of designer R. J. Mitchell. The four-bladed propeller, stark against the Kentish late-summer sky the same cerulean blue it had been in the summer of 1944. That was when I swore my little boy’s oath; that one day I, too, would fly a Spitfire.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.”
― Alexander Dumas, Der Graf von Monte Christo