Griffith

“how we move through time, how time moves through us, how we change and keep changing and come back to the same. One could even grow old and not learn a thing but this.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“He was my secret conduit to myself—like a catalyst that allows us to become who we are, the foreign body, the pacer, the graft, the patch that sends all the right impulses, the steel pin that keeps a soldier’s bone together, the other man’s heart that makes us more us than we were before the transplant.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City