Alfred Olvera

“It's a party. A big Dog Party.”
― P.D. Eastman

“Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

“What the American people didn’t know was how aggressive the government was in protecting our defenses and creating weapons. FDR had already secretly approved the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. And the government saw the waterfront as vital to our defenses. They feared that spies or other saboteurs would infiltrate the docks and interrupt the shipments of supplies or somehow obtain vital information about America’s secrets. They made a deal with the Mafia, specifically gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

“From the surrounding oak trees it seemed as if a name was whispered. ‘He is of the trees, his name is Xylon.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress: