Howling Dark (The Sun Eater #2)

by Christopher Ruocchio

The rightly tuned mind does not deny its emotions, but floats with them. It accepts what it feels and so incorporates that feeling to itself. Thus the mind is not subject, but rules itself.

True lessons require not only knowing, but that the student practices his knowledge again and again. Thus knowledge becomes us, and we become more than the animal and the machine. That is why the best teachers are students always, and the best students are never fully educated.

We believe our fear destroyed by new bravery. It is not. Fear is never destroyed. It is only made smaller by the courage we find after. It is always there.

There was a strength in her clean limbs and an urgency that scattered my legion and left a single, one-eyed soldier at attention.

But one need not know Truth to speak it. Truth is, and may be found as readily as disaster and by the same process. One need only put one’s finger on it, or one’s foot in it.

I might have seized that time to unpack my emotions, then to pack them each away behind doors of clear glass, to understand but to be safe from the corrosive power of them.

Always forward, always down.”

Fear is death to reason.

As powerful as this statement is it is so lose to the litany against fear from Dune that iit almost killed my intetest in the first book.

Cowards and faint-hearted runaways look for orations when the foe is near,