Angela

“A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“The psychic effect of texting was to introduce a foreign and yet highly localized weather pattern, as if it had suddenly begun hailing on Dorothy’s head, and the other patients were blinking in sunshine.”
― Christine Smallwood, The Life of the Mind

“America, there is not a place I can wander inside you and not feel a little afraid.”
― Tracy K. Smith, The Best American Poetry 2021

“This is how we lived. It was strange.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea