Invasion Of The Katrinians Quotes & Sayings

They were taken from Anacortes on a train to a transit camp - the horse stables at the Puyallup fairgrounds. They lived in the horse stalls and slept on canvas army cots; at nine p.m. they were confined to their stalls; at ten p.m. they were made to turn out their lights, one bare bulb for each family. The cold in the stalls worked into their bones, and when it rained that night they moved their cots because of the leaks in the roof. The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups. — David Guterson

He was the person all of us should be, but most of us aren't. And if I could have taken his place to buy him a little more time in the world, I'd have done it. I'm sorry I couldn't. — Trish Doller

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had
yea, and that among very wise men
to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. — Roger Ascham

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. — Leo Kottke

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. — Susanna Kaysen

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it. — John Ruskin