Clarissa

“What is your work in this world?” “I don’t know what it is yet. I’m back in school now.” “It’s getting pretty late in the day for you to have so few interests and convictions. How old are you, Mr. Midge?”
― Charles Portis, The Dog of the South

“Or dozing and waking under mosquito netting in a mess of slick sweat, gagging for air that wasn’t 99 percent moisture, one clean breath to dry-sluice your anxiety and the backwater smell of your own body. But all you got and all there was were misty clots of air that corroded your appetite and burned your eyes and made your cigarettes taste like swollen insects rolled up and smoked alive, crackling and wet.”
― Michael Herr, Dispatches

“Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“A lot of what people called courage was only undifferentiated energy cut loose by the intensity of the moment, mind loss that sent the actor on an incredible run; if he survived it he had the chance later to decide whether he’d really been brave or just overcome with life, even ecstasy.”
― Michael Herr, Dispatches