Leon Fricks

“Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.”
― M.L. Stedman

“Vielleicht haben Bücher einen geheimen Instinkt, der sie den idealen Lesern zuführt. Wie wunderbar, wenn es so wäre.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy