20 Quotes by Daniel Arenson

This is safety. This is warmth. This is home.

There is always danger in the world, and even the greatest army cannot fight every shadow in the night.

The humans stood, staring around, hesitant. Claws reached out, grabbing clothes, ripping them off. People shouted. One man fought back, hurling stones. The marauders grabbed him, knocked him into the dirt, and ripped off his arms. “Clothes off!” rumbled the marauder on the web.

The march took Addy past her old apartment building, the place where she had lived with Marco for two years. The top few stories had fallen, including their apartment. Marauder webs coated the rest, and the aliens were scuttling across them. It had been a difficult two years, living in that cage, watching Marco spiral into the depression and madness of shell shock. But Addy missed those days now.

Every thief wants a well-locked door for himself, as they say.

And all it takes is a single faded hair to make a man realize how far his youth has fled.

Good men stink of soil, oil, and other toil; villains smell of roses.

Pain is like that. Sometimes comfort, time, even love cannot banish it. Sometimes pain is like a scar, forever with you. But that doesn’t mean you can’t feel joy too. Old pain doesn’t chill the warmth of new happiness. Old shadows cannot extinguish new light. Saplings still rise from burnt forests; thus can new happiness rise in a broken soul.

A soldier is strong, he thought. A soldier always fights on.