“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.”
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“Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“and that when he was past work he should be shot and buried.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
“How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.”
― The Atonement Child
― The Atonement Child
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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