Cuba Quotes

“Live long enough and you begin to see the big picture, see yourself as God must see you, as a flawed mortal speck of protoplasm whose fate is of little concern to anyone but you. You work, eat, sleep, defecate, reproduce, and die, precisely like all the others, no different really, and the planet turns and the star burns on, both quite indifferent to your fate.”
― Stephen Coonts, Cuba

“When we perish from human memories we are no more. We are well and truly gone, as if we had never been.”
― Stephen Coonts, Cuba

“The truth was that the more you knew of life, of the compromises one must make to get from day to day, the more you realized the futility of it all. None of it meant anything.”
― Stephen Coonts, Cuba

“you have no friends who wish to die with you. Few men do.”
― Stephen Coonts, Cuba

“though the corners were routinely used to store farm machinery and fodder for the animals and occasionally to get a sensitive animal in out of the sun. Primarily the building existed”
― Stephen Coonts, Cuba