Lorin (paperbackbish)

“Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.”
― Marian Engel, Bear

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“having empathy is not dependent upon understanding the social, political and historical circumstances that made that empathy necessary in the first place. And yet we continue to expect empathy alone to create change, as though empathy would rethink our priorities, rewrite our laws and restructure our society for us.”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

“This was the secret I learned that day: none of them want to be saved. They all want to sink backward toward the earth again, to be swallowed by the ground, to keep sleeping. There is hatred on their faces when they are roused from the dead.”
― Liz Moore, Long Bright River