Allison Lichtenberg

“lie around all day eating them while watching episodes of ER. I watched every episode of every series of ER.”
― Lily Allen, My Thoughts Exactly

“The vast majority of the sources for this book are pulled from the oral history projects housed at seven institutions: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (New York City), the 9/11 Tribute Museum (New York City), the Arlington County Public Library Oral History Project (Virginia), C-SPAN (Washington, D.C.), the Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (The Pentagon, Virginia), the Flight 93 National Memorial (Shanksville, Pennsylvania), and the U.S. House of Representatives Historian’s Office (Washington, D.C.), as well as interviews and stories collected by myself.”
― Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

“Those were dreadful words. “Not many minutes” was a common phrase in Yorkshire and could mean anything up to two hours.”
― James Herriot, The Lord God Made Them All

“Gently I pointed out that it should be “sheep,” and though he was so tired that he could hardly keep his eyes open, he launched into an interrogation as to why the singular should be the same as the plural and wanted to know all the other English words which had this peculiarity.”
― James Herriot, The Lord God Made Them All