Ellie K

“For Albuquerque, everything was at stake. All the principal figures of the Indian administration were besieged in the Mandovi in the rain, with the shots of the enemy crashing in; the men and their captains cursed him for the lack of food, for his obstinacy, his obsessiveness, his vanity. All he had was his belief in a certain strategic vision, encouraging words, and the severities of discipline. It was perhaps his supreme moment of crisis.”
― Roger Crowley, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

“Everything is a useless speculative asset except guns and water.”
― Zero HP Lovecraft

“Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
― Mark Fisher