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

“What I do now I do alone. I could not do it well with thee. If thou goest then I go too. Do you not see how it is? Whichever one there is, is both.”
― 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

“Take it easy, he told himself. Don't get into a rage. That's just a way out too. There are always ways out. You've got to bite on the nail now.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls