Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.