Christopher Durtschi

“But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment. . . . Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.40”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon