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Loren
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What did it say about society that the best a lowborn, educated girl could hope for was respectable servitude? It was as if all of Dad’s teaching gave me a glimpse into a world for which I longed but had no means of entering.
“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
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“I fully believed that I would leave the courtroom with my husband beside me. Secure in our home, we would tell people how no black man is really safe in America.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
“I get this now. I get now that you can love what you have, love your kids and your life and your friends, and still want more. I get that it’s ok to go out and get more—more love, more friendship, more fulfillment—and still be a wonderful mom.”
― The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
― The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
“When a man wails like that you know it’s all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
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Loren’s 2025 Year in Books
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