Debbie

“Here’s what he said: ‘The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I make a contemplative noise, smooshing my pillow again. The older I’ve gotten, the easier it’s become for me to realize that my parents are just . . . people. They’re going through life the first time, just like I am, and while I often wish I had more normal parents—parents who didn’t do shrooms or eschew modern psychiatry or send me long emails about my menses and iron levels, since the last time they saw me I looked a little pale—they aren’t bad parents.”
― Amelia Diane Coombs, Drop Dead Sisters

“marveled at how peacefully the day was progressing despite the passions roiling the country. “It is a remarkable idea,” he wrote”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War