Darin Gildea

“In this town very little's changed and I'm afraid it never will.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“The gift had caused me to steal. I hated the gift. But I wanted to do the painting.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

“Ruth, do what you must to keep our family out of harm’s way.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

“the striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the peoples themselves but to differences in their environments.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies