Patricia Swenson

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“To me, that's what makes college so great and unique, as opposed to the pros. This is your alma mater. This is a part of you.”
― Tom Rinaldi, The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.

“The Stevens brothers had shared everything except women since they could remember: poker winnings, uniform, Red Cross parcels, news from home, and their most intimate fears and hopes. But in a few hours' time, after years of being inseparable, they would not share the same landing craft bound for the beaches of northern France. For the first time since they had joined the National Guard, a week apart in 1938, they would not be side by side. They would not face their greatest test together. They would arrive on Omaha Beach in different boats.”
― Alex Kershaw, The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune