#war

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#numbness #war #crime

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#rules #war #crime

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#dreams

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#dreams

I'm told the effect is cumulative--it will continue to worsen." Though outwardly calm as he explained this, his face had paled even more. "But if you tell me about the Valkyrie's weaknesses, I'll administer the antidote." "Weaknesses? So many. Foremost, we're ... ticklish. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #declan-chase #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole

A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe ↗

— Erin Hunter

#fireheart #firepaw #firestar #greystripe #hunter

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. ↗

— Jay Asher

#self-awareness #reason

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#hurt

The War Has Been Declared. Your Ally Been Ensnared. It Is Now Or It Is Never. Break The Code Or Die Forever. Time Is Running Out Running Out Running Out To the Warrior Give My Blade By His Hand Your Fate Is Made But Do Not Forget the Ticking Or the Clicking, Clicking, Clicking While a Rat's Tongue May Be Flicking With Its Feet It Does the Tricking For the Paw and Not the Jaw Makes the Code of Claw Time Is Standing Still Standing Still Standing Still Since the Princess Is the Key To Unlock the Treachery She Cannot Avoid the Matching or the Scratching, Scratching, Scratching When a Secret Plot is Hatching In the Naming Is the Catching What She Saw, It Is the Flaw Of the Code of Claw Time is Turning Back Turning Back Turning Back When the Monster's Blood Is Spilled When the Warrior Has Been Killed You Must Not Ingore the Rapping Or the Tapping, Tapping, Tapping If the Gnawers Find you Napping You Will Rot While They Are Mapping Out the Law of Those Who Gnaw In the Code of Claw ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#war #law