“According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Brett *was* me because being me was too much sometimes, something I'd forgotten until that part was ripped away.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.”
― Life on the Mississippi
― Life on the Mississippi
“I was an anxious driver. I was afraid of highways, and driving alone anywhere more than thirty minutes away scared me. Operating a vehicle is a lesson in individual control and mutual trust. I was skeptical of both.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“Some bemoan the brutalism of socialist architecture, but was the blandness of capitalist architecture any better? One could drive for miles along a boulevard and see nothing but parking lots and the kudzu of strip malls catering to every need, from pet shops to water dispensaries to ethnic restaurants and every other imaginable category of mom-and-pop small business, each one an advertisement for the pursuit of happiness.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
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