Gary Gauvin

“Yet few remember today that before Santa Anna was Texas’s enemy, he was its friend. He is a singular figure in Mexican history, a man who held the presidency eleven times in twenty-two years.”
― Bryan Burrough, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

“He felt that Christianity, like almost all forms of superstition, made men weaker and more resigned,”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“It is one of the Texas Revolt’s dark little secrets that, even after the Mexican “invasion”—or perhaps because of it—the great mass of Texians and Tejanos wanted nothing to do with Travis or the Alamo or fighting Mexican soldiers. Most had never wanted to revolt in the first place.”
― Bryan Burrough, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

“. . . I’m wondering whether any of you have reached a point where you can consider the prospect of life five years on. Where do you see yourself? What do you see yourself doing? Do”
― Jojo Moyes, After You