Chris

“It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I think it's dark and it looks like rain you said.
And the wind is blowing like it's the end of world, you said.
And it's so cold, it's the cold if you were dead.
And then you smile for a second.”
― The Cure

“The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“They would get nothing but the unmistakable conscience of having done what they ought to do in spite of fear - something which wicked people have often debased by calling it glory with too much sentiment, but which is glory all the same. This idea was in the hearts of the young men who knelt before the God-distributing bishops - knowing that the odds were three to one, and that their own warm bodies might be cold at sunset.”
― T.H. White, The Once And Future King