The Lessons Never Learned (The War Eternal, #2)

by Rob J. Hayes

"The truth is like power. Many claim to have it, but few really know what it even means."

"The mind is what we make of it. Too sharp and it cuts, too dull and it rusts. Bends too far and it can break. Shattered, like a mirror. Have you ever tried to put a mirror back together?"

The only excuses for ignorance are apathy or stupidity. It doesn't matter if you're not alone.

Pain is a constant companion throughout life. It is something we can get used to if it is frequent enough, but rarely something we enjoy. I have noticed the older a person gets, the more they complain about the pain, as though tolerance for it erodes with age. Maybe it's because pain comes more readily with years, or maybe it's because pain serves such a good use, to remind us all that we are, over time, falling apart. Hurtling, moment by moment, towards an inevitable death.

"Crimes are for the losing side, Aspect. The winning side calls them heroic deeds."

Those who fight with their arms lose. Those who fight with their heads win.

Our actions may be what defines us, but it is our names that bear the consequences.

"Opinions are like children. Those who have them want them to be special, rarely realising they are just as dumb and ugly as all the others."

"The true enemy is rarely those you fight, but your own ignorance."