Sara Beining

“The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“I was starting to think that half of the angst of a divorce wasn’t the loss of stability, it was coming to terms with just how lousy your judgment had been.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“I suggested that instead of his abstinence disqualifying his say on the American situation, perhaps he had gone “full dissident” and recognized the accepted framework of sociopolitical involvement—the ride-alongs with cops, the listening to candidates owned by money, the insistence that deliberate, institutional racism is just a misunderstanding still unsorted—and found them useless. I further argued that if he saw an unredeemed, corrupt system as the problem, there was no reason for him to trust in it and even less reason to expect him to participate in it.”
― Howard Bryant, Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

“He slips out the door and Konstance sits with her back against the wall and Mother paces, chin jutted, forehead creased, and Konstance goes to the door and presses it.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land