Codered Summer

“The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river—a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse’s eldest child. As”
― Jane Gardam, Old Filth

“The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree

“For gold bugs, anti–Federal Reserve zealots, and flat-out cranks, the 1910 escapade would come to assume mythic significance. Over the decades, its suspicious character seemed only to grow larger. In 1952, Eustace Mullins, a Holocaust denier and conspiracy theorist nonpareil, described the “secret meetings of the international bankers” as a conclave of the Rothschild family linked backward in time to Hamilton and forward to Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.”
― Roger Lowenstein, America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind