Micki Esbenshade

“All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“he suddenly swerved in the other lane and there was the screeching of brakes and screams and curses and he gave them all the finger out the window and continued to weave his way through the traffic, giving his perpetual finger to the horn blowers as he pounded his own, and yelling to them, What else ya get fa Christmas besides a new horn,”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream