Alison

“The texture is what mattered. The feeling of the era, and what that feeling supposedly signified, isolates the nineties from both its distant past and its immediate future. It was a period of ambivalence, defined by an overwhelming assumption that life, and particularly American life, was underwhelming. That was the thinking at the time.
It is not the thinking now.
Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that those rules were flawed. It was a good time that happened long ago, although not nearly as long ago as it seems.”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

“Moms know what kids are scared of, if they're good moms.”
― Stephen King, Later

“Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing.”
― Stephen King, Later

“That is part of the greatest danger to our souls, a pride that can come when we set ourselves apart to be servants, but then asume that our servanthood makes us better.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall