2 Quotes by Harley J. Sims

For these are the bolt-holes of cornered Man - not to burrow or cower, not to spit or howl or chew off the limb snared, but to mend his broken bow with his own heartstrings, and ere his spark is snuffed out to fit to it and hurl forth everything at his back, be it his home and the very world he leaves.

The monster made a noise which, for its pitch, it was clearly unaccustomed to making. Justinian knew it for the worst horror the mighty can know—to be stranded between death and mending, crippled rather than scarred, and trapped forever beyond the dignity of a proud stand, much less a good death.