I Am Pilgrim

by Terry Hayes

People say love is weak, but they’re wrong: love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things – patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love – the epic and the small, the noble and the base – the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all.

it’s a terrible thing to hold another person’s life in the palm of your hand.

Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for – justice, decency, humanity –

the world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

Like people say – if you want to make God laugh, tell Him you’ve got plans.

good one!!!

even in marriage, if you advanced too far to please the other person it let them edge away, and you ended up always laughing and fighting and screwing on their territory. Sometimes you had to stand your ground and make them come to you – just to keep the equilibrium.

computers don’t lie, but liars can compute.’

Better not, I decided: hope was even more dangerous than despair.

lines from I am Pigrim. Terry Hayes. So relatable ;)

In war, the first casualty is truth.