Columbus

“What? Are there two of them?” she asked. “Are we being invaded?” I laughed, but it was an understandable question given what she had just learned. “No, there is only one GERI. It’s something else. On Wednesday, when I let GERI out of the barn, I started the process of cleaning out the house. I found a ton of money under the floor in old Simpson’s closet.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“Flak accounted for far more air crew casualties than German fighters and took down more American planes than the fighters.”
― Steve Snyder, Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

“I was suffering from a profound disease called culture shock and a severe case of homesickness. My brain was exhausted trying to figure out a lifestyle and living standards that everyone took for granted and few bothered to explain.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself