Patrick Lloyd

“My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“We all go through a challenge in life because without a challenge there’d be no reason to keep going toward your future.”
― Mark Twain and M J Elliott, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I know why I’m going—and, Tom, I know where I’m going, and I am content.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No, they didn’t have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News