He turned back to consider the craft again. He dropped to his knees beside the rent in the fuselage. “Don’t do it,” Roger shouted from below. For the rest of his life, Harvey wished he’d heeded those words. Because after he looked inside
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“Claire obeyed, thinking that for the first time, she knew why Miss Haskell and Miss Wing were lifers here. Because for every McCarthy this country threw at you, it also threw a Margaret Chase Smith. And by god, when you found one, you backed her up because she was going to find herself in a lot of tight corners.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“Gloria felt herself floating toward a great open space where her anger at Papa could free her. But she would not, could not, take another step toward that void. Papa was a good man—an important man, Reverend Jenkins and the rest of the back-porch men said—and all important people made sacrifices.”
― The Reformatory
― The Reformatory
“A successful dinner party needs just one person all the others loathe, Pete—it gives everyone something to unite against.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“I sometimes think this country is an eternal battle between our best and our worst angels. Hopefully we’re listening to the good angel more often than the bad one.” She sighed. “We do that, and change will come.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“You don’t know that glass is broken if you don’t hear it break. Even when you see it, it still doesn’t fully register in your mind. But when you step on it, oh, then you feel it. That’s the moment of truth. Feeling is how reality makes itself known. Pain is its ultimate manifestation.”
― Love, Mom
― Love, Mom
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