Quotes
I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.
Sometimes in life, we have to take a stand. It does not help to sit on the fence, even if we have to hurt the people we love-love. That is what I want you to remember. If I have taught you anything, I want it to be that.
I’m all for courageous action, in moderation, Peter. But you have an alarming tendency toward heroics.
p. 269
Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the people whose job it is to rush into danger when everybody else is running in the other direction.
I’ll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It’s easy to mistake the two.
p. 320
My wife and children are dear to me. Let them not grieve for me. Let them remember that the brave should be prepared to meet death; and I will do as becomes a Dakota.
To risk death willingly, to venture forth knowing that in so doing you may cease to exist is an unnatural act. To take the life of a fellow human being or to watch your closest comrades die exacts a profound emotional toll.
p. 31
One battle doesn’t rob from another but rather causes battles to multiply, with each act of courage, and each victory, inspiring others to strengthen their resolve. p.324
Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.
p. 190
"With a spear, you only need a strong arm," Brun said.
"And strong legs and heart, and good lungs, and a great deal of courage," Zoug replied.
It is, after all, our imagination that makes us human. Vincent van Gogh asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless.
To give up before we even start, using low self-esteem or lack of qualifications as an excuse, is, frankly, gutless. As human beings we are all born with not only the wherewithal to be creative, but also the need.
