Felipe

“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

“Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
― Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise

“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?