Cody Sovis

“We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.”
― James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4

“One morning in early 1943, before a speech at the Cadillac plant in Cadillac, Michigan, he was escorted to a railroad siding behind a large building and asked to paint his name on a large piece of steel on a flatcar. Then he was invited to follow it through every manufacturing phase on the assembly line, until, three hours later, it was driven off the end of the line, part of a finished Sherman tank.”
― James D. Hornfischer, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

“I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don’t let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography

“There’s a lot to be done,” he told them. “Look around, see what it is, and do it.”
― James D. Hornfischer, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal