David Markham > David's Quotes

“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. The bridge was being repaired: she went right through the Danger sign. The car fell a hundred feet into the ravine, smashing through the treetops feathery with new leaves, then burst into flames and rolled down into the shallow creek at the bottom. Chunks of the bridge fell on top of it. Nothing much was left of her but charred smithereens.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Inever did become wise. Y’always think that when you get old, you’re supposed to become wise. But here I am, fixin’ to die, and I never did.” Gloria’s milky blue eyes widened and she raised her eyebrows. She laughed, just a little bit.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“In Europe, the ambassador reported, conditions were “most alarming to the American financial and industrial outlook.” Britain and France were running out of gold to pay for the American supplies and munitions they bought, risking “almost a cessation of transatlantic trade. This will, of course, cause a panic [a recession] in the United States.” Huge new credits to the Allies from Washington would be needed to avert this, but “unless we go to war with Germany our Government of course cannot make such a direct grant of credit. . . . Perhaps our going to war is the only way in which our present preeminent trade position can be maintained and a panic averted.”
― Adam Hochschild, American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis