Richard

“He believed in me, even when there was nothing to believe in.”
― Rachel Aaron, The Spirit War

“The thing is to be always ready to change, to adapt, to fit one's self to the facts of life. a fool fights reality and seeks the impossible; a wise man is always alert to move towards the possible.”
― Howard L. Oleck, The Lion of Islam

“This man of god has great faith, he thought, and men have always praised that. I have no faith and that is accounted evil; but the world if it is ever saved will be saved by men of goodwill of much thought and of little faith...Faith stops thinking, and thought is the root of life without which we become beasts, faith is surrender and dependence and becoming children again, it is refusing the accept the unimaginable variety of truth and the unwillingness to permit another his variant. Faith stops progress and legitimizes murder...”
― Frank Yerby, The Saracen Blade

“monsters aren’t born, they’re made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no sentiment to impede us while we rid the world of the terror strewn by the finished work.”
― Glen Cook, Angry Lead Skies