Bernice Rosol

“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“and I saw all over again what comes of pretending that terrible things do not happen. Shame comes with denial. Fear fattens on lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“Miss Howell, I worry that the pains your father has taken to educate you will result in little but finding himself with a wit on his hands.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina