Emi Richardson

“Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents.
Journalism.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy