Alex

“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”
― Jean-Luc Picard