Siobhan

“Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshiped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling. If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank—or the Company—needs—wants—insists—must have—as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country's done for.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Big shots won’t give you three dollars a day if you worry about anything but your three dollars a day.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“They called themselves the One-Offs. Unique, former crawlers who had no home and had physical issues outside the dungeon.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin