Missy

“And even more bewildering, what malignant magic brought Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line to the point where they could actually imagine the wholesale killing of one another?”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“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

“L)ife was ridiculous and absurd, and sometimes the only way to keep it from overwhelming us was to laugh right in its face.”
― 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