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“Don’t mistake silence for weakness.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark
“I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self-recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn’t know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.” There was a uniform glaze out there, and, worried about boring them, Ray picked up the pace. “OK. So what we have here is James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the”
― Samaritan
― Samaritan
“Or is this what being home is like: home as a place from which the entire world is suddenly possible?”
― The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
― The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,” Norma said.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark
“You’ve never had to work for it, have you? Never been tested, not really.” Billie thinks about her childhood and tamps down the rising anger. “I don’t know what your little folder says, but I’m not like the rest of them, okay? I didn’t get the picket fence and the golden retriever.” Constance shrugs. “I am not speaking of the trappings of a happy childhood, Miss Webster. I mean what happens inside—your intellect and what you’ve done with it. Or rather, what you haven’t done with it. Your records show exceptional intelligence and mediocre results. It’s a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don’t even know what it is that you are made of—and what’s more, you seem distinctly uninterested in finding out. You do just enough to get by, and frankly, I would rather have a dozen recruits with less potential and more heart, Miss Webster.”
― Killers of a Certain Age
― Killers of a Certain Age
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