My Commonplace Book

“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And – if we are strong enough – we live with the consequences.” – David Gemmell, Troy: The Lord of the Silver Bow

“Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.” – Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen