Gussie Gruninger

“Los buscadores dedicamos horas y horas, día tras día, haga el tiempo que haga, con la cara quemada por el sol, el cabello enmarañado por el viento, los ojos siempre entornados y las manos agrietadas. Tenemos las botas llenas de barro y con manchas del agua de mar. Nuestra ropa acaba mugrienta al final de la jornada. A menudo no encontramos nada, pero somos pacientes y trabajadores y no nos desanimamos cuando regresamos a casa con las manos vacías.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Las huellas de la vida

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones use like, inspiration and what Bog sends. Now it was lovely music that came into my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.