Eddie

“The Texas Rangers," he said softly, "are dead. All six of them have gone. In their place there's just one man. The lone Ranger." He”
― Fran Striker, The Lone Ranger Rides North

“Pap said, "Lend me those bolt cutters, Bo"
"They're in the back of the Explorer."
The old man got out the bolt cutter, walked around and snipped one of the leads to the battery on each of the ATV's. The others stood in the darkness watching him, listening to the snip-snip of the bolt cutter.
"Not a bad idea," said Dave. "That way is any of them get past us, he's going to be on foot."
"There's that," Tully said. "And then there's the fact that the old man loves bolt cutters...”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Blight Way

“Hope isn’t a strategy, but sometimes it’s all you’ve got.”
― Mark Greaney, One Minute Out

“South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum.

[James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War