Brian Curtin

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“A movement in the vines startled her and an opossum scurried out, looked at Clare and flopped over in fake death. She had seen this twice before in her garden back home and it was difficult not to draw certain parallels, amusing ones, though if you played dead long enough the act of coming back to life was questionable.”
― Jim Harrison, The Woman Lit By Fireflies

“...as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain