Matt Barton > Matt's Quotes

“Captain, someone is stealing the Enterprise.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“At the docking ring, before the group separated, Picard went to Sisko and the two men shook hands solemnly. “I’m sorry that this is what has brought us together after so many years,” he began. “What there is between you and I… I would have liked the opportunity to know you better.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“It’s all right,” she said, a sad smile forming on her lips. “I have everything I need.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“His smile grew into a feral grin. “Beyond all this… and into the mirror.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“Wesley reached out across the infinite, and he found— —Enterprise.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“Chief among my pleasures was getting to know Phoebe’s wife and children, who joined us a day or two later.”
― Una McCormack, The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway

“In the beginning was corn, and all was good.”
― James H. Madison, Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana

“By the late 1830s, Indianapolis reformers were boasting of sober Fourth of July celebrations, though some of Fort Wayne’s leading citizens, including directors of the branch bank and members of the local temperance society, were carried home drunk on election day in 1836.”
― James H. Madison, Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana

“Exodus.” Troi echoed the word. “That term has weight, Mister Zade. It speaks to the migration of an entire population. Is that what is happening here?” Zade looked down. “It is.” “But why are you doing this?” Vale frowned, unable to grasp the scope of it. “Where are you going to go?” “Do not be concerned, Commander.” Zade moved toward the turbolift. “This quadrant, these stars… They are no longer a place where my people feel welcome.”
― James Swallow, The Dark Veil

“Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?”
― Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

“pillared white mansion”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“The Negro is among us and the race should be encouraged to progress, but that path should never lead to social mingling,” warned the Indianapolis Star in 1921.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“Jim Crow was a bipartisan crime.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“The preacher said Madge’s spirit belonged to Irvington, and Irvington must be there for her memory: “Let us not forget that in coming here today we have not fulfilled our obligations of friendship,” he said. In the days, weeks, and years ahead, the family “will need us as never before”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Going All the Way is about what hell it is to be oversexed in Indianapolis, and why so many oversexed people run away from there. It is also about the narrowness and dimness of many lives out that way. And I guarantee you this: Wakefield himself, having written this book, can never go home again. From now on, he will have to watch the 500-mile Speedway race on television.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“His mother said she had to use the wagon that afternoon, but she’d drop him off wherever he was going. “I’m going to the Red Key,” he said. “Where?” “The Red Key,” he shouted. “Over on College and Fifty-fourth Street.” “The tavern?” “It’s a bar.” “You’re going there in the afternoon?” “I’m meeting a guy.” “Are you sure they’re open—in the afternoon?” Sonny took a deep breath. “I’m sure.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Put us up shit crick without a paddle,” Bud said.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Right, yeh, how goes it, man?”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“(Mrs. Burns couldn’t stand “raw meat” the way they ate it in the East, and at fancy restaurants unless you told them different, and then they got snotty about it).”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time