“Grace sat there in the doldrums of her conscience, unsure if she was a reasonably good person or a marginally bad one. She tried to summon a list of the good things she had done, so she could weigh them against the bad ones, but she was less sure than ever what constituted a GoodContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
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Book Quote of the Day
“Up close, I realize, Hope’s End is a mess. One of the second-floor windows is missing panes and now has plywood covering the gaping hole. Chunks of marble have broken off the detailing around some of the doors and windows. The roof is missing a fifth of its slate shingles, giving it a battered, pockmarkedContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
Trans woman Samantha Allen describes the process of changing her gender while in graduate school: “Estrogen is not made of sugar and spice. In pill form, it is synthesized from two decidedly unsexy ingredients: soy and yams. But that’s only fitting because, when I first started taking prescription estradiol in the fall of 2012, IContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
” ‘Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another bodyContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered inContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
[Five-year-old Mel Brooks is having an argument with his mother to close the window, despite the heat, because he saw Frankenstein in the theatre and got scared] ” ‘Mel,’ she says, ‘let’s say you are right. That Frankenstein wants to come here and kill you and eat you. But let’s look at all the troubleContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
Book Quote of the Day
“A small smile touched Death’s lips. ‘What are you afraid of?’ Jeremy wiped his eyes with his hand. ‘Pain, mostly.’ ‘But not just pain, am I right? It’s never just a fear of pain that makes any of you hesitate.’ Hot anger burned at Jeremy’s core. ‘Stop lumping me in with other suicides. I’m notContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”
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