E. Jamieson

“Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Many young men and women join the U.S. forces under the misleading propaganda of the U.S. government, which makes people believe that the Armed Forces are nothing but a big Battle of Honor: if you join the Army, you are a living martyr; you’re defending not only your family, your country, and American democracy but also freedom and oppressed people all around the world. Great, there is nothing wrong with that; it may even be the dream of every young man or woman. But the reality of the U.S. forces is a little tiny bit different. To go directly to the bottom line: the rest of the world thinks of Americans as a bunch of revengeful barbarians.”
― Mohamedou Ould Slahi, The Mauritanian

“What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic than was in the world.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“And what is the bloodydamn point of surviving in this cold world if I run from the only warmth it has to offer?”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son