Rusty Raley

“How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words?”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“The weather was clear, the track fast
War Admiral broke first and finished last.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder