James McGuffey

“I don’t know what will be left of me if love and grief can’t bring you back to life. Maybe I need to be brought back to life, too.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Ser Barristan,” she called, “I know what quality a king needs most.” “Courage, Your Grace?” “Cheeks like iron,” she teased. “All I do is sit.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Forgive me,’ he whispered. I held my father’s gaze. Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering. I stood up and hugged him quietly. He held me tight and when he burst into tears the anger and the pain he’d buried in his soul all those years gushed out like blood. I knew then, without being able to explain clearly why, that slowly, inexorably, my father had begun to die.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Aluminum occupies nearly ten percent of Earth’s crust yet was unknown to the ancients and unfamiliar to our great-grandparents. The element was not isolated and identified until 1827 and did not enter common household use until the late 1960s, when tin cans and tin foil yielded to aluminum cans and, of course, aluminum foil. (I’d bet most old people you know still call the stuff tin foil.)”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry