Daniel

“And the thought that comes to him is too complicated--too fraught with a terrible mixture of anger and sorrow--to be articulated. It's about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they're too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth's dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.”
― Stephen King, The Bill Hodges Trilogy

“So maybe falling for Yelena wasn’t hard to understand, after all. She was fine and fierce, keen and courageous, the best flier in the regiment. With a roll call of qualities like that, Nina would have lost her head over Yelena whether she was woman, man, or plant. To Nina it was exactly that simple and not worthy of any further thought,”
― Kate Quinn, The Huntress

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men