Veronica

“I scowled and pushed the thought aside. I was not about to let logic interfere with my crazy hopes.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Down a Lost Road

“Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. 'I have to know,' he whispered.
'Know?'
'You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-'
'Tell you? Tell you what?'
'If honor is dead,' Kaladin whispered.
'He is,' Syl said. 'But he lives on in men. And in me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“To learn how to die, according to the Stoics, is to unlearn how to be a slave.”
― Donald J. Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

“no matter what my small sufferings are, I have a choice. I can either let them make me bitter, or I can meet them with the confidence that God will not abandon me.”
― Walter J. Ciszek, With God in Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps