Alex

“And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop--and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate.

That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the present scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable”
― David Gemmell, Legend

“Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne

“All that is worshipped is but a reflection of the worshipper.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.”
― David Gemmell