tony deckard

“By the end of September 1944, some seven and a half million civilian foreigners were toiling for the Third Reich. Nearly all of them had been rounded up by force, deported to Germany in boxcars, usually without food or water or any sanitary facilities, and there put to work in the factories, fields and mines. They were not only put to work but degraded, beaten and starved and often left to die for lack of food, clothing and shelter. In addition, two million prisoners of war were added to the foreign labor force, at least a half a million of whom were made to work in the armaments and munitions industries in flagrant violation of the Hague and Geneva conventions, which stipulated”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

“fulfilling their expectations of the aged: sitting in a chair in a room, alone, musing on the past, on former glory, on missed opportunities, on the way things used to be. On dead people.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning

“Each of us is two selves,” he once told his congregation. The “great burden of life is to always try to keep that higher self in command.”
― Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

“The springtime of our lives seemed eternal, the coming of fall a mild interlude before flowers bloomed again.”
― James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown