Sam Roberts

“He was a Confederate sympathizer who opposed slavery, not because he thought Black people were equal, but because he worried it would make white people lazy.”
― Antonia Hylton, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

“Instead of getting drunk at the public, you’d do better to die yourself.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment—for a squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage, that it is hard to distinguish between his moods—so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“When you’re twenty-four,” Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club