Mike Perry

“What interested him was what their hearts contained: love, grief, meanness, longing, fear, hurt. Not the frailties that came from being poor, but rather those that came from being human.”
― Larry Brown, Tiny Love: The Complete Stories

“We’re all of us pretty much an assemblage of memories.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“The days are long but the years are short.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“As Sarah Maza has echoed in her own work, “Trying to fit a scenario from the past onto one in the present can be disastrous: ‘We will liberate Iraq, as we did Europe!’ ‘Don’t go for a diplomatic solution—remember Munich!’”19”
― Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past