Dan Preast

“People die, sure,” my mother was saying. “But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“When the plague went global, everyone wanted someone to blame. You were the first story and for many reasons, the best story.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Plague

“This just isn’t the sort of restaurant where five-foot-two-inch women in work clothes go shaking their ass while chanting something akin to a high school cheer. But right now, I give exactly zero fucks.”
― Lauren Landish, Dirty Talk

“Leone, P., M. Poshka, and V. E. Norton Jr. Around Chautauqua Lake: 50 Years of Photographs 1875–1925. Westfield, NY: Chautauqua Region Press, 1997.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew