Trinidad Cassio

“The Empire was a haven that saved the mediocre from obscurity. Lionel Clifton-Meek was a prime example of the shoe clerk, the railroad ticket seller, the humbled assistant tailor who had wiggled his way into a niche in His Majesty’s far-flung interests. It was a small hole to crawl into indeed, but once staked out it was his and his alone. Clifton-Meek carefully guarded against either taking on responsibility, or making decisions, or outside intrusions. He clothed himself in a blanket of paper work to expand a belief in his own importance. In this safe place he could wait it out and end up with a nice pension for loyal service to the crown.”
― Leon Uris, QB VII

“Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“The terror of a void is not that it is nothing but that it is something. It is real and—unendurable.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“The night was when all the failures were remembered longer.”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday