Stacy

“It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird