Emmett Borg

“The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Look not long at what’s offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“Armour …’ mused Whirrun, licking a finger and scrubbing some speck of dirt from the pommel of his sword, ‘is part of a state of mind … in which you admit the possibility … of being hit.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes