Tiera Hostettler

“We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out. It's just the food that worries me. Food and coal for the fire. We've enough for two or three days, not more. By that time...'

No use thinking ahead as far as that. And they'd be giving directions on the wireless. People would be told what to do. And now, in the midst of many problems, he realised that it was dance music only coming over the air. Not Children's Hour, as it should have been. He glanced at the dial. Yes, they were on the Home Service all right. Dance records. He switched to the Light programme. He knew the reason. The usual programmes had been abandoned. This only happened at exceptional times. Elections, and such. He tried to remember if it had happened in the war... ("The Birds")”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

“The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.”
― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto