Jeffrey Roten

“The filigreed iron gates of the Navy Yard were open wide between two pillars that featured large spread-winged eagles on orbs. Men were standing around as women came out together in their overalls after their shifts. Before the war women didn’t work at the Navy Yard, but with men joining up or drafted and a new campaign with a poster of 'Rosie the Riveter' it did its job encouraging woman to work outside the home for the war effort.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“In those happy days before Notre Dame Cathedral burned and Paris streets became thick with electric scooters.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth