Aidan Holmes

“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”
― Jean Toomer, Cane

“I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table-manners.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.”
― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus