Travis J. Coner

“Daijiro said the group was composed of retired fruit and vegetable wholesalers on a week-long tour of America. They were visiting three places only: Niagara Falls, Las Vegas and Atlanta. “We want to see the history and beauty of America,” Daijiro explained.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

“Like heavy heads of wheat whispering to each other right before harvest, our murmurs rippled.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“the streets. That’s not a criticism. It’s just a reality.” A senior Obama administration official observed that Biden’s acknowledgment also contained a subtler message: “This country needs to just chill the fuck out and have a boring president.”
― Evan Osnos, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now

“It seems to me that your sense of other people’s awfulness might be compensating for your own sense of inferiority and fear of rejection. You rationalize the rejection of your peers by telling yourself it comes from other people’s deficiencies rather than your own. They can’t understand your philosophy or your ideas.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot