Carissa Aumen

“Twenty-five chocolate chip cookies would be the perfect dinner.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“»Y ahora una palabra de...» —¡Apáguelo! —exclamó Zerchi.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., Cántico por Leibowitz

“And should Armageddon come, should a foreign enemy someday shower the United States with nuclear warheads, laying waste to the whole continent, entombed within Cheyenne Mountain, along with the high-tech marvels, the pale blue jumpsuits, comic books, and Bibles, future archeologists may find other clues to the nature of our civilization—Big King wrappers, hardened crusts of Cheesy Bread, Barbeque Wing bones, and the red, white, and blue of a Domino’s pizza box.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“It doesn't matter what we call your soul, Daddy Moses said, smiling at me. What matters is where it travels and who it uplifts.”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes