R Carroll

“If you like history (or need information for a book report), pop over to SheilaTurnage.com for more factual tidbits.”
― Sheila Turnage, Island of Spies

“In a country where youth is adored, we lost ours before we were out of our twenties. We learned to accept death there, and it erased our sense of immortality. We met our human frailties, the dark side of ourselves, face-to-face … The war destroyed our faith, betrayed our trust, and dropped us outside the mainstream of our society. We still don’t fully belong. I wonder if we ever will. —WINNIE SMITH
AMERICAN DAUGHTER GONE TO WAR”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Some things don’t bear the weight of words.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Grey quoted Gladstone, asking “whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants