Quotes from Bruce R. Cordell

Mother, you've given me even more than you know," he said. "I feel revived. That you'd never forgotten me was always my fondest hope. Knowing it's true is a boon of incalculable value. Thank you.

He was far more human, with all the failings that implied, than he'd ever admitted to himself. He was only a fool with an outsize ego, like every other fool who pranced and paraded through life, deluded they were somehow finer and better trained than most others, until shown the truth.