Amber Mensonides

“So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
"Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton