Gala Nights

Famous quotes containing the words gala and/or nights:

“The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“Some nights—some nights are darker. Some are almost black, Rachel. Like tonight. It seems so dark. And I’m scared. I’m scared of being alone.”
—Pat Fielder, and Paul Landres. Jennie (Virginia Vincent)