Phil Wade

“The novel [Pamela] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, too, is part of evangelicalism.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

“Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.”
― S.E. Grove , The Glass Sentence

“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence