Nevada Barcus

“I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;”
― Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave

“And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“Too much protocol.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine