Wendie Elroy

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe,”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“As my history teachers drilled into me, the First World War provided the preconditions for the Second World War and thereby the tension of the Cold War. The war of 1914–18 was Ground Zero for modern history, the end of an old order that had held sway for hundreds of years, the fiery forging of a new world.”
― Tim Butcher, The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Hours passed—or maybe days. It didn’t matter. The body adapted. But the mind—
The mind needed purpose.
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― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel