Derrick

“One thing that we, as a society, don’t fully acknowledge is just how difficult, how taxing, how utterly exhausting and draining it is to care for little children. It is work, in the purest, rawest sense of the word.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

“In the end, Cuba was the Mob’s most costly defeat. They had positioned themselves as legitimate businessmen in Cuba. They had placed all their faith in the brute power of American capitalism. The more Castro’s incipient Revolution gained traction, the more the mobsters invested, in the belief that they could drown out the will of the people through a massive infusion of capital. Rampant development would trump Revolution—or at least that was how it was supposed to go. In the end, the Cuban people made their own choice, and the mobsters were chased out of town.”
― T. J. English

“Freedom begins where work ends- the realm of freedom is after hours, on the weekend, on vacation, and not at work.”
― Peter Frase

“But I didn’t live in a world where any of my dreams were possible anymore.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade