Chad

“My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. “Something cannot emerge from nothing,” he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable “the truth” can be. —FROM “CONVERSATIONS WITH MUAD’DIB”
BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died. Or as bad as died. Maybe worse than, depending on how you looked at it.”
― Robert Jordan, The Complete Wheel of Time

“History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“When you lose everything,” Nathan had said, “you’ve nothing left to lose. You’ve got two choices then: either kill yourself or start building a new life. When I started this new life, without my family, I decided the only sensible thing in it was to live for the small rewards: a job well done, a beautiful sunrise, the sound of children laughing at play, a good cup of wine. Makes it easy to deal with the harsher side of life. “Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life’s little victories.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen