Katie Ruth

“Because in real life, unlike in history books, stories come to us not in their entirety but in bits and pieces, broken segments and partial echoes, a full sentence here, a fragment there, a clue hidden in between. in life, unlike in books, we have to weave our stories out of threads as fine as the gossamer veins that run through a butterfly's wings.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Nevertheless, a strong case can be made that Washington was truly the spiritual, if not the biological, father of Thomas Posey.”
― John Thornton Posey, General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution

“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“According to Wilson, Washington's closeness to Posey continued longer after the war. 'In the hours of peace he found hours, weeks and months of pleasure in company with him.”
― John Thornton Posey, General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution