Kristin Barnes’s Reviews > The Rum Diary > Status Update

“..and the worst thing about it was that I didn’t feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”

“…there was only one way out- to praise the ends and ignore the means, a time-honored custom that justifies almost anything but shrinking profits.”

“Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception..”

“It was the tension between these two poles- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other- that kept me going.”