Rosalyn

“The frontier may indeed have closed at last, as Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed in his history-making speech at the fair, but for that moment it stood there glittering in the sun like the track of a spent tear.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

“The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. .”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“Let our hopes and aspirations awaken forces which in all time to come shall influence the welfare, the dignity, and the freedom of mankind. - Grover Cleveland”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

“We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observing but whose orbit we were forced to nonetheless reside within.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley