Yvette Schweiss

“He offered a crystal-clear notion of right and wrong, an unambiguous definition of good and evil. And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good."

"Oh, yes. When it's rations."

"Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things."

"Oh, I be mean, be I?"

"Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

“Unemployment in America became, almost overnight, a thing of the past as the Federal government pumped billions of dollars into defense.”
― Alan Brennert, Palisades Park