The Bruce

“those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness”
― Cormac McCarthy

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
― James Baldwin