Lesli Frasca

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Bob had been caught by the white death, the threat of which hung over every male black in the South. I had heard whispered tales of black boys having sex relations with white prostitutes in the hotels in town, but I had never paid any close attention to them; now those tales came home to me in the form of the death of a man I knew. I did not search for a job that day; I returned home”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune