Haydee Pyatt

“A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive. The”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Then one day when I was in my mid-teens I woke up and realized that the new era was never going to begin. The revolt hadn't been put down, it had just dwindled away into a fashion statement. Can I have been the only person in the world who was disillusioned by this? Bewildered by this? It seemed so. Everyone else seemed to be able to pass it off with a cynical grin that said, "Well, what did you really expect? There's never been any more than this and never will be any more than this. Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking. Get a job, make some money, work till you're sixty, then move to Florida and die.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“Hair on a man's head is like the opposite of salt in a dish; you can take it away but you can't add it in.”
― Iain Banks, The Business

“Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.”
― Aldous Huxley