Onyx

“It's always been this way...We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“They are with us still, the Greeks and Romans, even as, thrust by Saturns, nestled in Apollos, we take to the stars an odyssey of man that began on the shores of a wine-dark sea.”
― Merle Severy, Greece and Rome: Builders of our World

“I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone. The Christians in Holland are also living in fear because their sons are being sent to Germany. Everyone is scared. Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil. Every hour hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of people are being killed in Russia and Africa. No one can keep out of the conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the Allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl