It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

— Tucker Elliot

It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is normal? Obviously I had a little hiccup reading my notecards. Understandable. I was talking to forty orphans who had to share a dirt floor with two chickens. No one in college had ever prepared me for this scenario.

— Tucker Elliot

I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.

— S.A. Tawks

Living the rest of my life in Jeroboam, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

— S.A. Tawks

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

— John Anthony Miller

My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.

— S.A. Tawks

My book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless!

— Yvonne B Murtha

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.

— S.A. Tawks

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.

— S.A. Tawks