All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out.


“That was the way man was meant to live, he’d say, in harmony with the wild, like the Indians, not this lords-of-the-earth crap, trying to rule the entire goddamn planet, cutting down all the forests and killing every creature you couldn’t bring to heel.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle

“we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the alternatives.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

“Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atoms, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don’t always carry the day.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle

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