Daniel Flanagan

“Be men, or be more than men. be steady to your purposes, and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable, and cannot withstand you, if you say that it shall not.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Your reading should be fun. We only call them literary works. Really, though, it's all a form of play. So play, Dear Reader, play. And fare thee well.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor

“For once, I felt, the system had worked perfectly. The jury had somehow managed to wade through the government’s misrepresentations and separate the guilty from the innocent.”
― Michael Franzese, Blood Covenant: The Story of the "Mafia Prince" Who Publicly Quit the Mob and Lived

“What good is it to be pretty?"

"Well. . . pretty things are rare in this life."

"But what good are they?"

"Well . . . pretty things . . . like flowers and sunsets
and rubies and pretty girls, too . . . they're like billboards telling us that life is good.”
― William Inge, Picnic