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“what a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

“Sometimes I don’t even watch the trains go past, I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed and the hot sun orange on my eyelids, I could be anywhere. I could be in the south of Spain, at the beach; I could be in Italy, the Cinque Terre, all those pretty coloured houses and the trains ferrying the tourists back and forth. I could be back in Holkham with the screech of gulls in my ears and salt on my tongue and a ghost train passing on the rusted track half a mile away.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

“Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy