Kholan ᎪᎳᏄ

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“I feel like Oklahoma is one big Dementiatown, suffering from some cerebral disease that is impeding blood flow to the brain. The steeper the declines in education spending, healthcare outcomes, and criminal justice, the more blame is placed on immigrants and the liberal media. The worse things get, the worse we sabotage ourselves.”
― Russell Cobb, The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State

“I sometimes find myself lost in the paradoxes of place, race, and religion. Oklahoma seems to embody Walt Whitman's famous lines: 'Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.”
― Russell Cobb, The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring