Status Updates From Portões de Fogo

"All a man wants is to live. This before all: to cling to breath. To survive."

"It seemed the Greek and Persian contended no longer as antagonists, but rather had entered, both sides, into some perverse pact whose aim was neither victory nor salvation, but merely to incarnadine earth and ocean with their intermingled blood."

"This is the rain of iron, hellfire at its purest"

"His was the virtue of a man, a fallible mortal, who brought valor forth out of the understanding of his heart"