Erin

“What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

“The lone attendant wasn’t paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now

“and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore,”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“Cheap booze is a false economy.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir