Jeff

“It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.”
― Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.”
― Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears