M&A Ed

“As Seward did not understand the reference, he did not ask for an explanation. In any case, he had a constitutional dislike of being told things that he did not know, as opposed to ferreting them out.”
― Gore Vidal, Lincoln

“And suddenly she was at him, after him with her fists, her struggling weight; he squeezed her against him, regretfully conscious even now, as her pinned fists flailed his shoulders and her face crumpled into contorted weeping and the sharp smell of perfume was scalded from her, that the expression, of serene superiority, of a beautiful secret continually tasted, was still on his face.”
― John Updike, Couples

“The baby carriage is the sorriest joke in Europe today, for you never see a baby in one. . . . Instead they are filled with pots and pans and tools, and all the impediments of nomads.”
― David Nasaw, The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

“Let me introduce you to Courage: Stories of Darkness to Light – eleven individual true stories of eleven brave people sharing their unique struggles with their own mental health battles and of what helped each of them to come through their tunnel of darkness to shine as brightly as they do today.”
― Samantha Houghton, Courage: Stories of Darkness to Light