Jeremy T

“I personally preferred to chance the arsenic,” Uncle Julian said.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“So they locked me up,” Danskin said. “I feigned madness. I babbled, I recited Heine. Nine years. Here I am.” They rode in silence for a while. “But you’re still pissed off.” “Now more than ever.”
― Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers

“He has all the time in the world, he can pick and choose, all the time you have is the moment of his arrival.”
― William Gay, The Long Home

“Pvt. David Webster of the 101st spoke directly to it. On February 15, a buddy had died a particularly gruesome death. Webster wrote, “He wasn’t twenty years old. He hadn’t begun to live. Shrieking and moaning, he gave up his life on a stretcher. Back in America the standard of living continued to rise. Back in America the race tracks were booming, the night clubs were making record profits , Miami Beach was so crowded you couldn’t get a room anywhere. Few people seemed to care. Hell, this was a boom, this was prosperity , this was the way to fight a war. We wondered if the people would ever know what it cost the soldiers in terror, bloodshed, and hideous, agonizing deaths to win the war.” 48”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany