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His denial was less a function of intelligence than a complete lack of the moral courage necessary—a paralyzing inability to face truths that he found personally terrifying.
Doesn’t matter where you go in the world—if you’re good at your job, people who are good enough at theirs to see it will respect you for it.
War leaves you precious little time to be human. It’s one of the more horrible realities about it.
But when I asked whose fault this was, I could see only myself in the dim mirrors of the windows of broken buildings, staring in silent accusation. I knew it wasn’t a rational position, and it didn’t matter.
They would test me—predators always test potential prey for weakness—but
The real battle for your own soul isn’t about falling from a great height; it’s about descending, or not, one choice at a time.
I’m not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us. We all recognize other people in pain.
“Apocalypse isn’t an event,” Nemesis murmured. “It is a frame of mind.”
“Death isn’t when your body stops working. It’s when there’s no more future.
When you can’t see past right now, because you stopped believing in tomorrow.”
It’s difficult to be intimidating when you look ridiculous.
Sometimes our madness leads us to choices that make us better and nobler and kinder than we were before.
