Alexander Gonzalez

“The shadows from the shoji were sharpening. Men are such babies”
― James Clavell, Shōgun, Part 1

“Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“In 1991, Dr. Stunkard examined sets of fraternal and identical twins in both conditions of being reared apart and reared together.4 Comparison of their weights would determine the effect of the different environments. The results sent a shockwave through the obesity-research community. Approximately 70 percent of the variance in obesity is familial.”
― Jason Fung, The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

“But I saved the rations my soldiers need. I fed you. I kept you alive. Was I wrong?” “There is no right and wrong,” said Bingwen. “You decided. You acted. You won. Now we clear the track and get the train moving again.” Li nodded and holstered his weapon. “I see that you understand war.” What I understand is you, thought Bingwen. Power without honor, order without civilization. He was not going to run away, he decided. He would go to this school. He would become a soldier. But he would not become the monster of war they hoped to make him. He would not become Lieutenant Li. He would become what the world needed. A Mazer Rackham. Decisive, yet kind. Lethal, yet gentle. Otherwise, the Lis of the world would run the military, and it would make no difference if we won or lost this war.”
― Orson Scott Card, The First Formic War