Rolf Stritzinger

“Quanto poco lo conosceva! E com’era trascurabile la presa che aveva su di lui! Mai le erano apparse con altrettanta chiarezza la propria ignoranza, la propria debolezza. Sarebbe mai stata amica di Antoine, come quella donna che temeva e odiava con tutto il cuore?”
― Irène Némirovsky, Due

“He is a much-decorated first lieutenant of the United States Army who fought for his country—the United States—in the European theater. If you see in his face a lack of emotion, if you see in him a silent pride, it is the pride and hollowness of a veteran of war who has returned home to this. He has returned to find himself the victim of prejudice—make no mistake about it, this trial is about prejudice—in the country he fought to defend.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“. “We’re still a family and you don’t count time as minutes on a clock or miles of an ocean.” Brigid tried to shove past him but he held fast.”
― Leon Uris, Trinity

“Yeah I'm so ugly I gotta shave in the dark
The kids start to cry when I walk through the park
The clock stop tickin' and dogs start to bark whenever I come around
Oh oh oh I walk down the street the girls all hiss me
If I died tomorrow not one of them would miss me
Only reason they ball me is they can't stand to kiss me
I'm the ugliest man in town oh yeah the ugliest man in town”
― Shel Silverstein