Gosia

“I hung up again and looked at Katz. "What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?”
― Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

“Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”
― J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City