Noah

“He could go all in. And he could, just as easily, be cast aside if the next woman he loved changed her mind like the last.”
― Sophie Sullivan, Maybe This Once

“Slavery had always been the underlying cause of the war, but by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, President Lincoln had turned the cause of the loyal citizens of the North and West into a war both to preserve the Union and to end slavery. There was another major change as well. Black soldiers had joined the Union army.”
― Scott Ellsworth, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

“After dinner he hitched Pet and Patty to the wagon and he hauled a tubful of water from the creek so that Ma could do the washing. “You could wash clothes in the creek,” he told her. “Indian women do.” “If we wanted to live like Indians, you could make a hole in the roof to let the smoke out, and we’d have the fire on the floor inside the house,” said Ma. “Indians do.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.”
― Jon Stewart