“And once they locked eyes, brown on brown, she saw altruism in his comet, and the woman understood, immediately, with a human wisdom unpopular to accept, but too ancient to ever go away, that the fight needed to be fought. She knew that there were days in the world when one could not come home in one piece. That fights must be fought when there was nothing left. That blood, like water, has its own purpose and flow.” MenLifeWarFightingViolenceBloodSocietyCivilizationBraveryUnpopular Opinions Book:A Happy Ghost Source: A Happy Ghost
“It can, for example, produce that observable effect on observable nerve and blood tissues that is known as “making one’s heart leap”—it may even produce an observable reaction from the tear-glands, resulting in a measurable quantity of brackish water.” TearsUnpopular Opinions Author:Dorothy L. Sayers