Gregg W.

“Consider the following dialogue between an instructor (A) and two of his students (B, C)
A. What happened in the senate
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on the Ides of March 44 B.C.?
B. Napoleon stabbed Mrs Thatcher.
C. Brutus did stab Caesar. In the senate it happened. It was Cassius that stabbed him.”
― A.M. Devine, Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information

“I’m not the kind of person who tries to explain a thing that has no explanation so I went to the garden and I pulled things out of it,”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Ruby’s tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North