Lurch

“You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.”
― John D. Lukacs, Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver