| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0ff6cd6 | The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge. | survivalism softness luxury weakness paradise | Frank Herbert | |
| be97c00 | Turner had never met a kid like Elwood before. was the word he returned to, even though the Tallahassee boy looked soft, conducted himself like a goody-goody, and had an irritating tendency to preach. Wore eyeglasses you wanted to grind underfoot like a butterfly. He talked like a white college boy, read books when he didn't have to, and mined them for uranium to power his own personal A-bomb. Still--sturdy. | reading books intelligence softness sturdiness nerds | Colson Whitehead |