Nathan Halstead

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
― John Williams, Stoner