“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
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”
― Flight Behavior
― Flight Behavior
“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
“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
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