Jan Mc

“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“History is a very tricky thing. To begin with, you can't get it mixed up with the past. The past actually happened, but history is only what someone wrote down.”
― A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture: An American Commentary

“But American history is not meant to be pretty. It is plain. It is simple. It is strong and truthful. Full of blood.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These