Hunt for Jade Dragon (Michael Vey, #4)

by Richard Paul Evans

The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python will squeeze and devour the child.

you were not celebrated for liberating their country—you were demonized. That is often the way of heroes. And why, more times than not, we build monuments to those our fathers stoned. Someday you may be celebrated, but it might not be in your lifetime. Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won’t—oppose the popular voice.

‘There are roads which must not be followed, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested.’

‘All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.’ ”

If a problem has a solution, to worry is no use, for in the end it will be solved. If a problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it cannot be solved.”