Mathew

“So this is old age! I’ve seen half my friends die.
I say prayers at their passing, too tired to cry.”
― Saladin Ahmed, Throne of the Crescent Moon (Crescent Moon Kingdoms) by Saladin Ahmed

“Sensing “the whole world, as it were, placed within the
grasp of the Evil One,” and waiting for death to visit him
too, he wrote, “I leave parchment to continue this work, if
perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam
escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have
begun.” Brother John, as noted by another hand, died of the
pestilence, but he foiled oblivion.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“They were no more lonely there than rabbits are.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

“If that thou wilt not read, let it alone;
Some love the meat, some love to pick the bone.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress