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“Who do you want to win this war?' 'I am interested to know where you will be going when you leave.' 'Mr. Wakatsuki, if I have repeat each one of these questions we will be here forever. Who do you want...?' 'When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”
― Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
― Mikhail Tal

“I printed it once more on my eyes, south, west, and north, and then we hurried away from the permanent and changeless past where my mother is always shooting a wildcat and my father is always burning his name with his love.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America