twenty-third

“Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov