Ellen Marcolongo

“Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting. We have to begin, then, with the first refusal to face reality: most colonizing schemes that took root in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America were built on privilege and subordination, not any kind of proto-democracy”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“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

“Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America