Darnell Matone

“The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

“You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status in society, and have strived to transform women’s expectations in their private lives. Private dignity at home equates to dignity in the workplace and the public sphere.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“Each was so bent upon her own despair that escape into darkness was vital, and, containing themselves in that tight, vulnerable, impossible cloak which is fury, they stamped along together, each achingly aware of the other, each determined to be the last to speak.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House