“Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward.”
Robert Silverberg book The Gate of Worlds
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 7 “We Play a Little Game” (p. 122)
“Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder?”
— Pierce Brown, book Dark Age
Source: Dark Age (2019), Ch. 10: The Ash Rain; Lysander
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