Anna

“What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God—who knows all that can be known—seems powerless to change.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

“Each of the four hundred turbine towers, he said, has three blades, each bigger than a Boeing 747 wing and weighing 22 tons. For each tower they dig a huge cavity in the ground, dump all that earth somewhere, and pour a two-million-pound concrete and steel base that will be there forever.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“Because there aint a decent man ever been born.”
― James Jones, The Ice-Cream Headache: And Other Stories

“But I still hate this country. You love the Army. But I don’t love the Army. This country’s Army is why I hate this country. What did this country ever do for me? Gimme a right to vote for men I cant elect? You can have it. Gimme a right to work at a job I hate? You can have that too. Then tell me I’m a Citizen of the greatest richest country on earth, if I don’t believe it look at Park Avenue. Carnival prizes. All carnival prizes. Pay fifty cents a throw and get a plasterparis bust of Washington—if you win. A man can just stand so much from anything, no matter how much he loves the thing.”
― James Jones, The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle