Page 66 Quotes

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.”
― George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation

“Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“For the first time in years, I could see the stars that Thurmond's monstrous lights had faded into nonexistence. They were so bright, so clear that they couldn't have been real. I didn't know what was more shocking–the endless stretch of road or the sky. Tears pricked at the back of my eyes.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Arthur said: “A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life.”
― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

“Her mouth curved in its slow smile.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“You’re not the kind of man to whom the past means much—perhaps not even the future—only just the present.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Fear would squeeze her, the fear lying ever-dormant beneath the civilized front, beneath the normal life of a Los Angeles housewife whose husband’s income was in near-five figures, whose children had been born and bred and coddled in serenity and security and status.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man