Keith

“The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I've got blisters and muscle cramps in places not meant for the touch of anything but a beautiful woman," Max spat back sullenly. "I've bitten my tongue so many times in the past three days that I whistle in musical chords when I exhale. And the smell isn't ever going to come out of my armor, I just know it.”
― Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury

“True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon