Matt G

“it occurs to me that all scarecrows look as if they've been crucified.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu conjectured that you cannot grow until you confront the void within.”
― Michelle LeClair, Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

“To its acolytes, the Marine Corps was no less than a secular religion-Jesuits with guns-grounded in a training regimen and an ethos that relied on a historical narrative of comradeship and brotherhood in arms stretching over 150 years. In short, if a man wanted to be part of America's toughest lineup, he had best join the institution that had fought at the Halls of Montezuma and Tripoli, Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Iwo Jima.”
― Tom Clavin, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

“I know it is not a very popular thing to say, but I have always believed, even before this occasion, that certain ethnic groups are predisposed to certain types of behavior or, perhaps more accurately, naturally endowed with certain characteristics. The Germans and Japanese, for example (and I don't think it possible to dispute this), have an organic predilection for a particular brand of refined cruelty, the French for a kind of glamorous laziness that they have managed to pass off as languor, the Russians for alcoholism, the Koreans for surliness, the Chinese for parsimoniousness, the English for homosexuality.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees