Susan Soros

“imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.”
― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

“A minute ago they’d been faced with a thorny existential dilemma, possibly spiritual in nature, only to have it unexpectedly redefined as an urge that only a delivery pizza could satisfy.”
― Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool

“Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who’ve really faced the facts.”
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres