## Metadata - Author: [[John C. Wright]] - Full Title: Awake in the Night Land - Category: #books ## Highlights - The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt. ([Location 185](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JM98V60&location=185)) - Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now. ([Location 1022](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JM98V60&location=1022)) - All this metal and energy, all these walls and weapons are merely the outer and material form of a spiritual battle, and they are the least important element in that battle. Once we say to the Outer Darkness: come in with me, I welcome you, then all this will not prevail to keep them out. So it is with all things, human or not, which try to eat our souls.” ([Location 1819](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JM98V60&location=1819)) - It was his gaze that wavered and dropped, despite that I was led away in chains, and he in pomp. ([Location 2778](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JM98V60&location=2778)) - This time, this last time, our tragedy, repeated in many ancient lives, ends more happily, for I mean to bring a sip of hope to wash away the oceans of despair. ([Location 2868](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JM98V60&location=2868))