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Tasty Quotes
"We told stories over cigarettes. We bonded over cigarettes. We shared moments over cigarettes. We cried over cigarettes. Cigarettes were always with us. Some of us had even fought and killed people with a pack of smokes in their pocket. We smoked cigarettes as pirates and poets, felons and fools, warriors and wanderers, vikings and the vanguard. It was a very special time and place to be alive."
- Zane Zinkl, excerpt from Top 10 quotes I heard while smoking cigarettes in Ukraine
“You have to live your dream, war or no war. This is my dream. I’m living my dream. Why be scared? I’ve lived my life.”
- Timothy Matthew, as quoted in Retiring in War-torn Ukraine
"I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m glad my mother had Huntington’s. I’m glad I struggled. I’m glad I suffered. I’m glad I survived. I’m glad to be the person who I am today. I’m glad to be courageous. I’m grateful for each and every moment. Thanks mom, you did your best. She would be proud. She raised a son who stands tall. She raised a son who is strong and proud. She raised a warrior. And I will not apologize for her or for me."
- Zane Zinkl, excerpt from Blood on the Sunflowers
"Everything was alright! It had always been alright! What had ever come over me to make me forget that?"
- Zane Zinkl, excerpt from Blood on the Sunflowers
"Eric could not help but weep when his poor overwhelmed taste buds made first contact with true living. He washed down the food with his wine wordlessly, just trying his best to hold himself together."
- Eric Bergstedt, Zane Zinkl, and Max Crysdale in San Miguel de Allende (@casagiovannimarina)
"And the Grass said, 'Rarely am I not green.'"
- Max Crysdale, drunk in Portugal, excerpt from Blood on the Sunflowers
"We'll always have Mexico."
- Zane Zinkl, referring to his ex-girlfriend Riley Palmer at the time of their breakup
“Putin must really want me dead. It must really f*ckin’ piss them off that there’s this one-armed man runnin’ around killin’ all their people.”
- Rod, British volunteer soldier in Ukraine, as quoted in Top 10 quotes I heard while smoking cigarettes in Ukraine
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