Mia Kanani

“What passed for confidence was frequently an alcoholic haze through which nothing touched her deeply.”
― Michael Reynolds, Hemingway: The Paris Years by Michael Reynolds

“Wait until you're hurt before you start to cry. Wait until the fight before you get angry. There's lots of time for it in a fight. It will be some use to you in a fight.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“It was all calm now and the sun beat down on his neck and on his shoulders as he crouched and as he looked up he saw the high, cloudless sky and the slope of the mountain rising beyond the river and he was not happy but he was neither lonely nor afraid.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“But there was no lift or any excitement in his heart. That was all gone and there was nothing but a calmness. And now, as he crouched behind the marker stone with the looped wire in his hand and another loop of it around his wrist and the gravel beside the road under his knees he was not lonely nor did he feel in any way alone. He was one with the wire in his hand and one with the bridge, and one with the charges the Inglés had placed. He was one with the Inglés still working under the bridge and he was one with all of the battle and with the Republic.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls