Sook Camillo

“He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become. This was the first place on earth where the man mattered more than the state. True freedom had begun here and it would spread eventually over all the earth. But it had begun here. The fact of slavery upon this incredibly beautiful new clean earth was appalling, but more even than that was the horror of old Europe,”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

“إِنَّ الإِنسانَ يَستَطيعُ أَنْ يُعبِّرَ عَن نصف أَفكاره فقط ، لأنه لا يعمل إلا نصف عمله فقط .
إن العالم موجود في هذه الحالة اليائسة ، لأن الإنسان نصف فاضل ، نصف شرير . اذهب حتى النهاية ، ارمِ بعيداً ولا تخف ، عنئذ تنتصر”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The workmanship was better than the subject matter.”
― Ovid