Tinks

“Sometimes the cheapest things are the most valuable.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Men’s deaths are epic, women’s deaths are tragic: is that it? He has misunderstood the very nature of conflict. Epic is countless tragedies, woven together. Heroes don’t become heroes without carnage, and carnage has both causes and consequences. And those don’t begin and end on a battlefield.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace. The poet may not want to learn this,”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“She had long since learned that no one heard the truth from her, that even if they listened, they did not hear.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships