Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.