{"author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["expectations","nightmare"],"id":2350,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["crossroads","darkness"],"id":2888,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"You are wrong,” says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. “Your rulers and their propaganda have sold you this watered-down conceit of war, of a warrior yoked to the whims of civilization. Yet for all their self-professed civility, your rulers will gladly spend a soldier’s life to better aid their posturing, to keep the cost of a crude good low. They will send the children of others off to die and only think upon it later to grandly and loudly memorialize them, lauding their great sacrifice. Civilization is but the adoption of this cowardly method of murder.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["civilization","conflict","imperialism","jingoism","militarism","murder","nationalism","patriotism","peace","propaganda","soldiering","soldiers","war","warrior"],"id":7843,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["impatience","inspirational","reflective","thoughts"],"id":9666,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"The word everyone forgets is 'serve'...Yes. Serve. This is the service, and we soldiers are servants. Sure, when people think of a soldier, they think of soldiers taking. They think of us taking territory, taking the enemy, taking the city or a country, taking treasure, or blood. This grand, abstract idea of 'taking,' as if we were pirates, swaggering and brandishing our weapons, bullying and intimidating people. But a solider, a true soldier, I think, does not take. A soldier gives.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["service","soldier"],"id":11571,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could. Say what you like of a belief...Of a party...Of a finance system..Of a power. All I see is privilege and its consequences. States are not in my opinion composed of structures supporting privilege but of structures denying it...In other words deciding who is not invited to the table.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["politics","science-fiction"],"id":52870,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water, endless resources of time and knowledge snared in ink, tied down to paper, layered on shelves.... Moments made physical, untouchable, perfect, like preserving a dead hornet in crystal, one drop of venom forever hanging from its stinger.She felt overwhelmed. It was--she briefly thinks of herself and Vo, reading together in the library--a lot like being in love for the first time.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["bibliophile","books","libraries","love"],"id":73128,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["epic-fantasy","war"],"id":95247,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["gods","religion"],"id":96582,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["justice"],"id":108950,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}