Stella

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla