The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)

by Ada Palmer

Actually, the world you paint makes better sense than mine, since, in your world, all this repetition would achieve something, instead of just leading us back to the slaughter-fields again and again.

“Rage,” Achilles son of Peleus replied. “That will be your problem, Europe’s cry for revenge, likely unstoppable.”

I am a coward, and I do indeed use duty to hide from my fear, my guilt, my wretched human state.