Nicola Todd

“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.