Adam

“the human condition. The young tend to be disgusted at what they become, and the old have contempt for what they once were.”
― Scott Meyer, The Vexed Generation

“He’d captured a mythical beast in an ocean with no water, in a land with no sun.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark

“Not to be believed does not at all agree with princesses: for a real princess cannot tell a lie. So all the afternoon she did not speak a word. Only when the nurse spoke to her, she answered her, for a real princess is never rude—even when she does well to be offended.”
― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection