Mark Ehrlich > Mark's Quotes

“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
― Ulysses S. Grant

“Write what you know.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“Seeing her hands trembling, he felt a familiar thrill run down his spine. He lived for these moments. She’d been so full of herself, so confident. Then, with just a shove from him, she’d collapsed like a house of cards. The joy of crushing his opponents made sweating through two uniforms a day worth it.”
― Mark S. Ehrlich, Float the Boat

“Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
― Simonides