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“Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by—nothing at all, simply imagination.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Boy Who Followed Ripley

“On the farm, this is failure's best hiding place—smack in the middle of runaway success.”
― Ted Genoways, This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

“Most people don't travel anymore. They arrive. Unless you're riding the slow boat. Then you see every mile.”
― Porter Fox, Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

“The earth is expertly designed to take back what it has created. Bodies left for carrion in enclosed, regulated spaces could be the answer to the environmental problems of burial and cremation. There is no limit to where our engagement with death can take us.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory