Jared

“Later, following the funeral, he took all the family’s horses, including his own, up into one of the mountain ravines and shot them.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas

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

“But even if a person were ignorant of such things, the sight of a moving train held aloft above the great gorge at Niagara by so delicate a contrivance was, in the 1860’s, nothing short of miraculous. The bridge seemed to defy the most fundamental laws of nature. Something so slight just naturally ought to give way beneath anything so heavy. That it did not seemed pure magic.”
― David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

“A WAR COMES ALWAYS to someone else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden