Kyle

“The forties were a turning point, as it were, the decade of your life in which you either learned to fit in or dropped out completely.”
― Hye-Young Pyun, The Hole

“What he’d really returned to was this noisy, crowded, queuing, waiting, leering world. The world where, as his doctor explained, the only way to survive was through sheer force of will.”
― Hye-Young Pyun, The Hole

“The men found one mine—also Russian-made—that had a particularly diabolical design. A dozen ships could pass over it without incident, but the thirteenth ship would cause it to detonate. “It took a curious sort of mind to come up with a notion like that,” wrote one Marine, wondering if the number thirteen had a “sinister connotation for Russians as it did in the States.”
― Hampton Sides, On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

“Longing is unavoidable, so live with it as best you can. Let it be an ally--the hunger that propels the hunt.”
― Clint McCown, Total Balance Farm