Effie

“I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”
― Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”
― Louis Zamperini

“Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.”
― Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

“Without dignity, identity is erased.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption