Michael Diaz

“the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.”
― Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

“(And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I've spent enough time in the past, love. The dead need no tears. They don't rest easier for our vengeance, or our guilt.' She shrugs. 'They'd want us to live.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.”
― Carl Sagan