Jordan

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“With three hundred men properly mounted, I believe that I can thrust back the Barbarians at least for a while,' I said at last. 'As for saving Britain - I have seen the wild geese flighting this autumn, and who can turn them back? It is more than a hundred years that we have been struggling to stem this Saxon flighting, more than thirty since the last Roman troops left Britain. How much longer, do you think, before the darkness closes over us?' It was a thing that I would not have said to any man save Ambrosius.

And he answered me as I do not think he would have answered any other man. 'God knows. If your work and mine be well wrought, maybe another hundred years.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset

“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche