Cortez Isbrecht

“Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Love is the best thing in the world to have, and the worst to lose.” For a moment he felt terrible grief, and he had to fight back tears. “No, you’re wrong,” she said. “Even worse is to be trapped and know you will never have it.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Our cousin Patrick Hacker McKaybees, died fighting by the side of the king.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood