“Locating the village elders, he said to them, “I think that we are in for a bad time. The American Sky Soldiers are coming by helicopter and the usual things the Americans do of air strikes by fighter-bombers and by B52 large bombers is starting at Long Phuoc! I fear the worst!”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
“Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras. Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don’t warrant attention as individuals. One”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“And they shared a whole lot of hoots and howls and hearty laughs. What a freaking wild time.”
― Columbine
― Columbine
“He was in that state of highly-respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
― Twelve Years a Slave
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