“Funny how the days you weep, you can also have the fullest, deepest laughs.”
― Bug Hollow
― Bug Hollow
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor[2]”
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
“She had to be careful, even now, as she shifted up to fourth gear on the open highway again, to not reinfect herself with that sticky, toxic terror that life—this life, which gave you the beautiful sparkling world—squashed you like a gnat.”
― Bug Hollow
― Bug Hollow
“Alfani notes a pattern that unfolds “repeatedly and systematically across history”: when economic elites become ingrown, impenetrable, and “insensitive to the plight of the masses,” societies tend to become unstable.”
― The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
― The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
“Sally, in the far back seat, colored on a newsprint pad, but mostly she stared out the window and imagined living in different houses they passed. Or she looked at the backs of the others in the car and thought, Who are these people, and why aren’t they nicer? For as long as she could remember—from her very first remembered thought—she’d had a sense of coming from somewhere else, a place of kindness and good humor and justice, where people weren’t so grouchy and annoyed and quick to anger.”
― Bug Hollow
― Bug Hollow
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