Numbers Mahaley

“Estoy tan solo como este gato, y mucho más solo porque lo sé y él no.”
― Julio Cortázar, Las armas secretas

“Each of a hundred ships, built by the same men at the same yard to the same plans, will have her own special characteristics--most of them bad, really, but after her crew becomes accustomed to them they are spoken of affectionately, particularly in retrospect.”
― Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October

“To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“She knew how to get by on next to nothing.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle