I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.
Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.
You may defeat me in a final vote, but you'll never get me to quit.
There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.
You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.
