Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Can I believe in that God too?

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy

No true hero ever believes that they are one.