Patrick Walinski

“Mobutu’s dictatorial reign between 1965 and 1997 created the violent free-for-all of today’s Congo.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

“You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“As night fell, Yamamoto, aboard the huge battleship Yamato, steamed eastward at full speed into the night. Far ahead the destroyers went to flank speed to search for the US carriers. Lookouts, with the best night-vision binoculars in the world, swept the night horizon where the very dark sky meets the black ocean. The faintest shape, the tiniest pinprick of light, would show there was something out there, like the superstructure of a ship over the horizon. There was nothing.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway