Joleen Soller

“how can you love a little cat
so much
in such a
short
short
time?”
― Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat

“someone in a high place - the mayor, chief of police, or other official - would receive information that a neighboring city was already in flames and that carloads of armed black men were coming to attack this city. This happened in Cedar Rapids when Des Moines was allegedly in flames. It happened in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and in Fort Worth, Texas, when it was alleged that Oklahoma City was in flames and carloads were converging on those cities. It happened in Reno and other western cities, when Oakland, California, was supposed to be in flames. It happened in Roanoke when Richmond, Virginia, was supposed to be in flames.”
― John Howard Griffin, Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22