Zach Pack

“If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“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!

“I’m going to paint too. I’m going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“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