Germano Marrello

“Capito? I videogiochi sono come il sogno americano. Lavora duro e avrai la tua villetta col barbecue. Non ci sono porte chiuse a priori. Per questo si mischiano con l'adolescenza.”
― Zerocalcare, La profezia dell'armadillo

“They said the world was divided into those folks who ran away from danger, and those who ran toward it.”
― Karen Traviss, Gears of War Aspho Fields

“This he understood: that association makes people stronger and brings out each person's best gifts, and gives a joy which is rarely to be had by keeping to oneself, the joy of realizing how many honest decent capable people there are for whom it is worth giving one's best (while living just for oneself very often the opposite happens, of seeing people's other side, the side which makes one keep one's hand always on the hilt of one's sword).”
― Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

“A battle, as relayed by a poet, is a glorious thing, full of heroic stands, daring charges, and valiant sacrifice. But a battlefield, as experienced by some poor bastard mired in the thick of it, is something different altogether. The word clusterfuck came to mind.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld