Numbers Maloon

“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“The five Roosevelt children had 17 marriages among them. They struggled to find security in love.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“When Australians talk of the men who saved Australia in 1942–43, of that time in their history when they also had to stand alone and help themselves, who fought not for the birth of a nation, but for its very rites of passage,”
― Peter Brune, A Bastard of a Place