“Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“The pear trees were bare, their limbs spread open like the viscera of a parasol. Stretching into the darkness beyond, the single houses, double houses, and villas were lined up in cramped, neat rows which ran toward the tip of the peninsula. p94”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him fro ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.”
― The Invisible Man
― The Invisible Man
“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”
― Flight Behavior
― Flight Behavior
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