Lauren

“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“The devil fetch ya, ya ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five