“For after the Battle comes quiet.”
“A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded.”
“If we go into battle with a mindset of defeat, we will come out of the battle defeated.”
“Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.”
“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
“And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.”