Jackson Theofore Keys

“Ask any soldier any day whether they agree with the officers, and you either find a liar or a contrarian. Officers are all fools, soldiers are all dunderheads.” “How comforting to learn that the military is made up of idiots who hate each other.” “Only way war works, far as I can tell.”
― Eric Ugland, Killing Them Awfully

“Someone who comes to me cautiously, knowing that falling in love is easy and staying in love is hard, that passion dies and most relationships are doomed before they start.”
― Keith Hartman, The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse

“I could safely say I would rather be sunburnt at the lake, covered in skeeter bites, trying to kill a water moccasin with a flip-flop, than be in the trunk of a kidnapper’s car.”
― A.J. Sherwood, Jon and Mack's Terrifying Tree Troubles

“Sadly, even today, most US citizens never leave the country and many never, or rarely, leave their home state. This lack of curiosity about, let alone respect for, other cultures is a hallmark of US nationalism and part of why Americans continue to condone stupid and self-defeating foreign policies.”
― Cleve Jones, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement