Missy

“I'm not going to sacrifice one second of the present to my fear of repeating the past.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

“What the North truly failed to grasp, however, was the degree to which the proslavery writers like James Hammond had succeeded in persuading themselves and their peers that slavery had indeed produced this best of all societies, and that anyone who condemned the institution of slavery slandered the South and the chivalry in particular”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“Lincoln said. "Let us believe, as some poet has expressed it:- "'Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.'" p233”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“There are fates worse than death, and to love and be loved and have the memory of it ripped away is one such fate.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space