Clare

“Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear rather than lay off clerks, store owners who accepted teachers' scrip at face value not knowing if the state would ever redeem it, churches that set up soup kitchens, landlords who let tenants stay on the place while other owners turned to cattle, housewives who set out plates of cold food (biscuits and sweet potatoes seemed the fare of choice) so transients could eat without begging, railroad "bulls" who turned the other way when hoboes slipped on and off the trains, affluent families that carefully wrapped leftover food because they knew that residents of "Hooverville" down by the dump would be scavenging their garbage for their next meal, and more, an more. But they were not enough, could not have been enough, so when the government stepped in to help, those needing help we're thankful.”
― Harvey H. Jackson, Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State