Of Darkness and Light (The Bound and the Broken, #2)

by Ryan Cahill

‘we honour the dead not by how we mourn their death, but by how we live on despite it.’”

“There are demons within us all that we must face. They only ever surface when we are at our lowest because they are not strong enough to challenge us at our highest.

“Besides, there is nothing more important in the darkness than a ray of light.”

Books are not a complete history. They are only the history people chose to record.”

“There is not a soul in this world who does not feel the push and pull of pride. Damage it, and you can make an enemy for life. Keep it intact, and you may find allies in the strangest of places.”

“The sun will set, and it will rise again, and it will do so the next day and the next. The gods are in charge of such things, but it is by our own will that we pick ourselves up when we fall.”

We are born, we live, and we die. Those three things cannot be changed. The only thing within our control is what we choose to do with the short time we have – the things we fight for, the people we love, the things we hold dear. Good men stand even when it is against all odds. They were, each of them, good men.”

“Things that matter are rarely easy.”

People tended to fear what they didn’t understand, and fear was a good friend of hate.

′When everything around you gets to be too much, focus on one thing and only one thing. Give your mind a task.′

courage is not the absence of fear. It is the will to act in spite of fear.”