Renee

“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
― Elsie de Wolfe

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“Eleven years later. Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites