Mike Leide

“When you’re alone you can long so hard for something like an embrace that you mine it from the air. You find it in meanings that you might not otherwise grasp, for which it is helpful to arise early in the morning, when the mind is clear and the heart is gentle.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

“But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer...”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo

“Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo

“Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War