Alekus

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“If you have some liniment I’ll put it on my dignity,”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time