David Dunlap

“By design they had chosen a moonless night, but the weather was clear, and over my grandfather's head the circuitry of heaven was printed in bright joints of solder.”
― Michael Chabon, Moonglow

“...history is shaped -- or erased -- to fit the narrative its tellers want or need to share.

[LADY EVELYN HERBERT]”
― Marie Benedict, Daughter of Egypt

“Children are the strongest antidote to grief, not because of their unconditional love or their joy or because they take pain away, nothing like that, nothing like an inspirational quote embroidered on a pillow for your sofa. Children are the antidote because of their unrelenting needs, their continuous, voracious, narcissistic, selfish insistence on living, their unceasing demands that those needs, no matter how trivial, be met immediately and urgently.”
― Ilona Bannister, Five

“We do ourselves no favors by pretending American history is either cheerfully grand or unrelievedly bleak, for American history is a human undertaking and is as subject to selfishness and greed, to cruelty and injustice, as we are in our own lives. Yet it is also true that the United States of America has grown stronger, freer, and more just when it has opened its arms rather then clenched its fists; built bridges, not walls; and understood that the promise of the Declaration of Independence includes not some but all.”
― Jon Meacham, American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology