Felipe

“But looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“But to write off white working-class anger as nothing more than racism is intellectual comfort food, and it is dangerous.”
― Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

“Most of what we know isn’t why things are what they are. We just figure out enough about how they work that we can predict the next thing that’s going to happen.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon’s Ashes