Elizabeth

“The difference was that the white man in the South spoke his hatred in clear, clean, concise terms, whereas the white man in the new country hid his hatred behind stories of wisdom and bravado, with false smiles of sincerity and stories of Jesus Christ and other nonsense that he tossed about like confetti in the Pottstown parade.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“Only love and art can do this: only inside a book or in front of a painting can one truly be let into another's perspective. It has always struck me as a paradox how in the solitary arts there is something intimately communal.”
― Hisham Matar, A Month in Siena

“Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”
― Voltaire

“It's television that makes things seem important, whether they are or not.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home