Tamara

“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
― Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Suicide in the trenches:

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems