“I don’t really consider myself a historian. I consider myself a writer who writes historical stories, true stories, but my interest is in the story.”
– Erik Larson

“You have it now and that is all you whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow… There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything it nit will be in proportion… And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life.”
– Ernest Hemingway, “for Whom the Bell Tolls”

“Uncertainty is not the worst thing, because in uncertainty there is still hope.”
– Victor Klemperer, “I Shall Bear Witness”