In order to make the character of Kurt Merst seem more literary and intellectual, I had him quote things from several famous authors and poets. None of these quotes are mine. Here they are, along with the people who originally said them:
Chapter Three
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
"Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." (Charles Dickens)
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief." (Jane Austen)
"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." (Victor Hugo)
"Consider the auk; becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly and could only walk. Consider man, who may well become extinct, because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked." (Ogden Nash)
"Not all those who wander are lost." (J.R.R. Tolkien)
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." (Oscar Wilde)
Chapter Nine
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." (William Shakespeare)
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos." (Mary Shelley)
"This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper." (T.S. Eliot)
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The Crowhill Chronicles
HumorThis 10-chapter book relays the adventures of the sixteen year-old boy, Jack Crowhill, who goes through a barrage of insanity that is brought on by many different mysterious and strange people who he meets on his journey. It contains comedy, mystery...
