The Long Walk

“I'm scared, too. And homesick... I mean we...” He groped. “We're all too far away from home. The road keeps us away. I may see them, but I won't be able to touch them.”

I left my gold watch at home and no one has invited me to tea. At least, to the best of my knowledge, no one has. Maybe that's what I'll ask for when I win. When they ask me what I want for my Prize, I'll say, 'Why, I want to be invited home for tea.'”

I left my gold watch at home and no one has invited me to tea.

"We don't bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don't take anything out. "

"I hope it won't be dark," Baker said. "That's all I hope. If there is an… an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' there, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different."

And that girl looked at me like I was the greatest thing since the internal combustion engine.

Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

"What will you ask for?" Garraty said aloud. "When you win?"
Barkovitch grinned gleefully as if he had been waiting for the question. In the uncertain light his face seemed to crumple and squeeze as if pushed and pummeled by giant hands. "Plastic feet," he whispered. "Plaaastic feet, Garraty. I'm just gonna have these ones cut off

"Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once."

"Come on, assholes! You want to live forever?"

-Unknown

World War I Top Sergeant