Stacey

“Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.”
― George Saunders, Tenth of December

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton