Jared

“You’re too young a man to be panning memories, Adam.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Can you think that whatever made us—would stop trying?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas

“At one point an elderly resident Frenchman told him that if he persisted with his plan there would not be trees enough on the Isthmus to make the crosses to put over the graves of his laborers.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas