Damon Twitt

“The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or like Arjuna, one may refuse to go on with it. On the other hand, like most of the rest of us, one may invent a false finally unjustified image of oneself as an exceptional phenomenon in the world--not guilty as others are, but justified in one's inevitable sinning, because one represents the good. Such self-righteousness leads to a misunderstanding, not only of oneself, but of the nature of both Man and the Cosmos. The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life-ignorance by affecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will, and this is affected through a realization of the true relationship of the passing phenomena of time to the imperishable life that lives and dies in all.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter."

"And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted.

"Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool

“إن سوء الفهم يولّد الشك.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“En realidad las cosas verdaderamente difíciles son otras tan distintas, todo lo que la gente cree poder hacer a cada momento.”
― Julio Cortázar, Las armas secretas