Cody Sovis

“There’s a lot to be done,” he told them. “Look around, see what it is, and do it.”
― James D. Hornfischer, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

“I can’t allow myself to tire. I’ve already run off the cliff. I just have to keep remembering not to look down.”
― James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: A Novel

“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don’t let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography