Sharon

“I know, I know,” I say. “We are all unique snowflakes. Don’t you think that’s a weird metaphor to use to tell someone they’re special given how quickly snowflakes melt? It’s like, you may be different from everyone else, but it doesn’t matter because in zero time you’ll be gone.”
― Jane Pek, The Verifiers

“But a bad person who thinks they’re a good one—now, that’s what got him into trouble.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“I was just a kid then, twenty years old, and without any real plan, trying every angle I could to make my way through life and too dumb to know any better. I wasn’t really making much headway. But though I was striking out, I learned a valuable lesson. It didn’t matter what the art was. All that mattered was the signature.”
― Tony Tetro, Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

“Sometimes Stout felt he was fighting another war entirely, a war within a war, a backward-circling eddy in a downward-rushing stream. What if we win the war, he thought, but lose the last five hundred years of our cultural history on our watch?”
― Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History