Peter Rempel

“No man is brave that has never walked 100 miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, bitter as medicine and crueler than mirror glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than 100 years of quiet introspection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Salome interrupts. We’re not members ! she repeats. We are the women of Molotschna. The entire colony of Molotschna is built on the foundation of patriarchy (translator’s note: Salome didn’t use the word “patriarchy”—I inserted it in the place of Salome’s curse, of mysterious origin, loosely translated as “talking through the flowers”), where the women live out their days as mute, submissive and obedient servants. Animals. Fourteen-year-old boys are expected to give us orders, to determine our fates, to vote on our excommunications, to speak at the burials of our own babies while we remain silent, to interpret the Bible for us, to lead us in worship, to punish us! We are not members, Mariche, we are commodities.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“The ships, ever bigger, ever more powerful, ever more majestic, were the badge of spirit for mankind.

At least... sailors think so.

For bakers, it's the bread that rises in their ovens that mankind should pay attention to.”
― Diane Carey, Ghost Ship

“Even that beloved British institution, the chippie, is preferable to the clown's fare; at least you are encouraging individual, local business, an entrepreneur who can react to neighborhood needs and wants, rather than a dictatorial system in which some focus group in an industrial park in Iowa decides for you what you will or should want.”
― Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones