Ellen Marcolongo

“It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm ones, that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn’t choose it. And if her platter had been full with the goodness of Henry and she had found it burdensome, had flicked it off crumbs at a time, it was because she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“No, they would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Kill a Mockingbird (1962), a classic portrait of the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in the South.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America