Gerhard

“He set off right away, glad of his boots, an old army pair. The leather had outlasted three complete sets of stitching. They were the most comfortable footwear he had ever known. There's no happiness like a good pair of boots, he thought as he walked. Boots, if they were just exactly right for you, changed the way you felt. In fact, there was no happiness like marching alone up a track towards evening in the desert. His limbs tingled. For a while he didn't care if he ever found what he was looking for, if he had to give it all up tomorrow. Nothing mattered but this march through the wide open air of the desert hillside.”
― Henry Shukman, The Lost City

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
― Sitting Bull

“He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image