Wanda Scheppe

“You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece