Anetta

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secret - that some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else's smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip and attracted the right guy, a fake who nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real... and who, when you got right down to it, didn't want to remember, because it hurt even more than this.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Once upon a time we had our honest living that was God and country. Then the world turns and there's no God anymore, no country, but it's still in your blood that coal is God's gift and you want to believe. Because otherwise it was one more scam in the fuck-train that's railroaded over these mountains since George Washington rode in and set his crew to cutting down our trees. Everything that could be taken is gone. Mountains left with their heads blown off, rivers running black. My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. There's no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I live in a mobile home, and I drive a pickup truck, but I got a helluva horse.”
― Dan Mearns, Seattle Slew: Racing's Only Undefeated Triple Crown Winner