Craig Hinners

“Our beginnings do not foreshadow our ends if one judges by the Hudson River.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways

“How would she react? He wanted to think she would be delighted to see him, but he wasn’t convinced of that. He remembered her waving to his boat as he left, just before the dengue hit. She was standing among her people, waving him away, saying good-bye forever. She did not want to be bothered with the things of the world.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“It’s hard to argue with the success you two have had … Right. The great measuring stick of money”
― David Baldacci, Total Control

“The owner, Hugh Elliott, laid out a 1910 photograph of the drugstore when you could buy a freshly concocted purge or balm, or a fountain Bromo-Seltzer, or a dulcimer; although the pharmaceuticals were gone, you could still get a Bromo or a dulcimer (next to the Texas Instruments 1025 Memory Calculator). The photograph showed one other change: what had been a spacious room of several bent-steel chairs and tables was now top to bottom with merchandise. What had been a place of community was now a stuffed retail outlet. Across the nation, that change was the history of the soda fountain pharmacy.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways