The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth

They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.”

There aren’t many words less abstruse than “leg,” but it took some doing for him to comprehend it.

when another’s tears are more unbearable than one’s own.

the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as “History,” harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Monty was the most overbearing of my uncles, which probably accounted for why he was also the richest.

“I’m sorry for whatever I did that was wrong.”