Tara

“All civilisations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is.”
― Robert Harris, The Second Sleep

“It is well to learn disappointment when one is young, for the gods bestow it abundantly if one cheats death for long.”
― Linda Lay Shuler, She Who Remembers

“One of the grandest creations of the New South was a mythical concept of an Old South.” What people take to be an epoch was a matter of mere decades of pretension and an exercise in irrational nostalgia.”
― Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads