Larissa

“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood “Accentuate the Positive” was not in the Book of Common Prayer—Less is technically Christian. There is really no other word for someone who celebrates Christmas and Easter, even if only as craft projects.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“The rich had always commissioned portraits of themselves but the poor moved invisibly through history.”
― Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog

“Problems don’t solve themselves neatly like that, due to a set of coincidences. Problems are solved by making decisions. Erika had always said that, and he had thought she was being doctrinaire. But it was true. Deciding not to change anything was a decision in itself. He hadn’t fully understood this before.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations;”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less