Eric Wright

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”
― Jim Harrison

“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.”
― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes