Ralph Ordiz
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“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“But the only thing that we should really be worried about is making our lives into the lives we want them to be. Maybe things don't get better until we make them better.”
― A Very, Very Bad Thing
― A Very, Very Bad Thing
“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
― We Are the Ants
― We Are the Ants
“Some people were matches, a bit of light and no heat. And some were furnaces, all heat but little light. And then, once in a blue moon, there was a bonfire, something so hot and bright you couldn't stand too near without burning.”
― Vengeful
― Vengeful
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