Donna

“Sometimes I suspect that what people really resent is not the change in (grammar). What people resent is being told that the world that they have known has changed, and that even now they have to get used to something new.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

“But the needs of others were always smaller than the needs of one's own child. Perhaps it was the strange distortion of the crisis, or perhaps it was simply human nature, that the pain of others was never as acute or compelling as one's own pain.”
― Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief

“Outside of the books and lectures, he discovered prayer. Real prayer, not the romantic notions of his fervid boyhood___God is my father, God is my friend, God is my protector.
No. God is not this, God is not that. God is.
In his solitary hours at chapel, he came to understand that the opposite of God is not Satan. The opposite of God is not evil. The opposite of God is absence.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing

“If her son had a calling, had one passion, it was for wards on a page, and the magical way they could transport him and his listeners to faraway lands. "Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I've lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school. Ahab, QueeQueg, Ophelia, and other characters die on the page so that we might live better lives.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water