Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
“You have annoyed Dorian. He is not like other men.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Germans love applause”—she looked down at her own moving hands—“to the point where it hurts.”
― Other People’s Clothes
― Other People’s Clothes
“She deserves more credit for this. She’s just out there living her fiction.”
― Other People’s Clothes
― Other People’s Clothes
“For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“However, for me, based here in Sweden, the soil isn’t even fertile enough to allow Black women to thrive and grow. So, how could I transparently address Black joy when we’re still not confronting the problems that prevent Black women from thriving here?”
― In Every Mirror She's Black
― In Every Mirror She's Black
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