Book: An endless sea

Hey, I told you this, soldier? - I suppress the desire to touch her. -The first priority?
No bad thoughts, dutifully meets the Cup.
Because bad thoughts?..
- Make us weak.
And what happens when we become weak?
- We die.
- And we want to die?
Cup shakes his head:
- Not yet.

- I have a broken nose, I say.
- And my ankle - I hear in response.
- Then I'll come to you.

And what else is God? For optimal solutions, of course.

Why atheist can not know what a prayer circle? Religious people imagine that such evolution.

People die, love remains.

I thought it was cool to pretend. I called it optimism, courage, ability to hold your head up, and other things, depending on the situation. It's not cool. This is just the exact definition of weakness.

I always thought lame game where everything is based on luck. And hated them for the same reason.

Well, you know what they call baseball? A national pastime. Because, playing it, we learn to cope over time. Or with the past.

Chess came up. Opened them.

Mankind owes its existence to the little whims of the cosmos. Stone. If you think about it, it's just amazing.

I would not want to live in a world that don't appreciate chess.

Rat without hope is a dead rat.

The point is not to crush your ability to fight. The main thing - to break the will to resist.

Even the most open person there is something deeply hidden, where he was not admitted.