Zach Pack

“I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on terraces and stared for afternoons at mediocre views. I was feeling overjoyed for happy couples. I would see or hear about people, usually people I hardly knew or didn't even like, getting together, finding each other after so much groping, and I would feel bliss. I was blindsided by familiar things.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Glorious victories make fine songs, Yarvi, but inglorious ones are no worse once the bards are done with them. Glorious defeats, meanwhile, are just defeats.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King