

“She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men”
― Cross Creek
― Cross Creek

“No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.”
― The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
― The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

“Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief

“Anything that kills hope is a sin.”
― I Was Here
― I Was Here
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