Nancy Lorenzen

“We like to believe, or pretend, we know what we are doing in our lives. It can be a lie. Winds blow, waves carry us, rain drenches a man caught in the open at night, lightning shatters the sky and sometimes his heart, thunder crashes into him bringing the awareness he will die. We stand up, as best we can under that. We move forward as best we can, hoping for light, kindness, mercy, for ourselves and those we love.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“The ship flew like a penguin, lingering for an all too brief moment in a medium it secretly yearned for in its heart.”
― Jeffery Russell, Blackfog Island

“But we could win now, Sarge,” said Sam. “No, we can’t. But we can put off losing until it doesn’t hurt too much.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World