The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

"There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.