“How far back must you go to discover the beginning of trouble?” ― Philip Roth #RareBooksFirst #PhilipRoth

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.” – Stephen King #StephenKing #RareBooksFirst

“I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,’ and when Brad said, ‘What starts to happen?’ she said hysterically, ‘People starting to come apart.” ― Shirley Jackson #RareBooksFirst […]

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.” ― […]

“Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.” ― John Steinbeck #RareBooksFirst #JohnSteinbeck

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald #RareBooksFirst […]

“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.” ― Robert Bloch #RareBooksFirst #RobertBloch

“A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” – Mark Twain #RareBooksFirst #MarkTwain

“Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.” ― Sinclair Lewis #RareBooksFirst #SinclairLewis

“That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.” ― Mark Twain #MarkTwain #RareBooksFirst