James Heesom

“• If we threw these uniforms and weapons away you could just as much be my brother as Kat and Albert. Take twenty years from my life, camarade, and get up again – take more, because I do not know what I am going to do with the years I have left.”
― Remarque Erich-maria

“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“One would think he was going to have his throat cut,' said the Controller, as the door closed. 'Whereas, if he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Everyone, in a word, who's anyone. I almost envy you Mr. Watson.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.”
― Stephen King, Elevation