Eugenia Loscalzo

“Richard looked up at the beautiful, big pines spreading over them, illuminated in the firelight. A spark of understanding lit in his mind. He saw the branches stretched out with murderous intent in a years-long struggle to reach the sunlight and dispatch its neighbors with its shade. Success would give space for its offspring, many of which would also shrivel in the shade of the parent. Several close neighbors of the big pine were withered and weak, victims all. It was true. The design of nature was success by murder.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara

“it is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale