Teresa

“We’ve always been a violent country, thought Volk, ruled by successive bands of ruthless autocrats, each crew more oppressive than the one they supplanted: three hundred years of pillaging by Romanovs, eighty-odd years of totalitarian terror under Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, Bolsheviks, and Communists, and, for the past three decades, first under Yeltsin, then Putin, a return to something like a monarchy, now rebranded as “democracy,” but in reality a criminal organization masquerading as a government, or, maybe, a government masquerading as a criminal organization; historians would debate it for years.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Ideally, a driver is a master of all that is around him, Denny says. Ideally, a driver controls the car so completely that he corrects a spin before it happens, he anticipates all possibilities. But we don’t live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen, incidents with other drivers happen, and a driver must react.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Yes: the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain