Jessica

“We started off, he and I, and the girl between us. She shivered as the cold struck her; he pulled the sheepskins higher, and put his arm with a fold of his cloak about her shoulders. I felt a sudden rush of the past upon me; for a moment grief pierced me like a winter night; yet it came to me like an old grief, I had suffered it long since and now it was behind me.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

“God damn it, Minyard. This is why we can't have nice things."
"Oh, Coach. [...] If he [Neil] was nice, he wouldn't be any use to us, would he?”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“I think what people were is less important than what they are. And what people are is less important than what they could be.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise

“Such an unexpected will to survive from someone who has nothing to live for.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court