Alex

“I think,” I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, “that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great.” For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

“Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien Gandalf the White, The Two Towers

“Teaching, like writing, is an extended exercise in failure. You make a plan, do your best to execute, have some portion of your ass handed to you by circumstances and events you could not foresee, and try to do better next time around.”
― John Warner, Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

“Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary