Steve Groves

“In truth, it takes very little to make a man happy.”
― Sholokhov M.A., The Don Flows Home to the Sea

“There is only one journey, she said, that all men make. They go forth from the Mother, and do what men are born to do, till she stretches out her hand, and calls them home.”
― Mary Renault , The King Must Die

“What is it they seek from the king?’ Bazo asked the question for all those who listened, and Kamuza shrugged.

‘This one asks for the right to hunt elephant and take the teeth, this one asks for the young girls to be sent to his wagon, another wants to tell the nation of a strange white god that has three heads, another wishes to dig a hole and look for the yellow iron, yet another wishes to buy cattle. One says he wants only this, and another only that, but they want it all. These people are consumed by a hunger that can never be appeased, they burn with a thirst that can never be assuaged. They want everything they see, and even that is never enough for them. They take the very earth, but that is not enough, so they tear it open like a man rearing a child from the mother’s womb…Everything they see they take; and they see everything, for they are always moving and searching and looking.”
― Wilbur Smith, [Men of Men] [by: Wilbur Smith]

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”
― C.S Lewis