Mairead

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“We are naked together in locker rooms four times a day and alone together on the bus for God knows how many hours, and it is ingrained in us that our teammates are our brothers. We are expected to have each other's back, to lie for each other if we have to. Civilians wouldn't understand it. When we look around the room, we see twenty clones of ourselves and we all know we are better than everyone else. This is our culture. We breed lions, and how do you tell a lion to stop being a lion?”
― Rick Westhead, We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London