Alison Whiteman

“The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

“It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.”
― Karen Russell, Sleep Donation

“From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.”
― Joy Kogawa, Obasan

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor