CasualSev

“I’ve studied History all my life, and the one thing I’ve learned for certain I’d that you can’t stand against it. It’s like a river in a flood, and we are just swept along in it. The big people might try to swim against the current for a time, but little people like us, the best we can hope for is to keep our heads above the water for as long as we can.”
― Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain

“Vakul is also a common Kwen word for a valley or depression where a river might flow. There is no river there now, but there might have been once, and there might be one day again. All living creatures have in them some good, some bad, and a lot of vakul. But vakul can’t be all you are if you expect the love of your gods and fellow mortals. A ravine won’t water crops or quench the dying. At some point, there has to be a river, or what good can you really claim? If the man of good intentions never manifests a river, only calamity, should he not go to hell?”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“I don't kill for a living."
"Of course not. You tolerate a system that lets others do it for you. And when they come back from the war, you can't stand the smell of death on them.”
― David Morrell, First Blood

“Today, the ache had followed me to work. I had already written a song—just a piece of a song—
Is it still a secret if nobody cares I
if having the knowledge in no way impairs I
your living—and feeling—the way that you breathe I
knowing the things that you know about me—
the hope of a song more than anything else.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger