Onyx

“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

“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

“Not everything that's true needs to be said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.”
― Marie Lu, Champion