Brian Almquist

“Everything's ruined, our lives around our lands are ruined, our water, the air, everything.

Their almighty dollar comes first. That's pretty sad. You can't eat money.

At the cost of our lives-as long as they get their money. They don't care how many of us they kill off.”
― Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

“On The Great Gatsby: Fifteen-year-olds can really get behind an essay on what green light means, which is good, because they sure as heck won't relate to any of the characters, who are all huge jerks with enough money to be wasted most of the time on top of being miserable.”
― Kate Beaton

“So what? Let him talk, this Mitrich with the runny eyes. We must honor, I repeat, the dark reaches of another's soul. We must look intro them even if there's nothing there, even if there's only trash there. It's all one; look and honor it, look and don't spit on it.”
― Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line