Iris

“Does disappearing one person from the earth clean it some? I seen men I knew were a danger to the world and they too deserve better than this. A shame for me to hope for better, but I know it’s better that can be done. Ain’t no magic potions for these bleeding human hearts. Ain’t no building full of hurt gonna save the masses.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

“My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“I thought about how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it's this.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars