Elisha Mcelwain

“The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“Middle Ages”
― Mary Norton, Bed-Knob and Broomstick

“On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him:
"He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others...

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?" ...”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Foreign opium imported into China was chiefly produced in British India and shipped solely from British ports.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China