Emily Ann Meyer

“If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

“Beware of the anger of a patient man.”
― Jeanette Keith, Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City

“Mr. Grandin wore a suit and tie every day. “That’s how you know he doesn’t work for a living,” Sam’s dad said. On”
― Connie Schultz, The Daughters of Erietown

“Martha Mitchell, the flamboyant and fiery wife of Nixon’s attorney general, arrived under a yellow organza parasol and wide-brim hat, wearing a pale-apricot couture dress and high-heel slingbacks—the same outfit she’d worn earlier in the year to meet Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.”
― Garrett M. Graff, Watergate: A New History