Daniel Atkinson

“a little embellishment was so often the difference between a good story and a great one.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“There is nothing, I think, so wasteful—or so pointlessly tragic—as a battle that should never have been fought in the first place.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.”
― Heraclitus