Sarah

“I had discovered the miraculous possibility that art holds out to us: to be a part of the world and to be removed from the world at the same time.”
― Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God

“My mother sobbed. "I'm not asking for that much." But she was: She was asking him to be someone else.”
― Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God

“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“As I saw myself moving ever farther toward the social margin, nothing healed me of a sore and angry heart like a walk through the city. To see in the street the fifty different ways people struggle to remain human—the variety and inventiveness of survival techniques—was to feel the pressure relieved, the overflow draining off. I felt in my nerve endings the common refusal to go under.”
― Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City