Cruse

“People react in such complicated ways to any death, but particularly to the death of a parent, because a lot of what one feels is about oneself and the sense that nothing now stands between that self and dying. You have now become the older generation. I believe that the closer and more loving the relationship is, the deeper but simpler the grief. Of my father’s children, my brother had the hardest time”
― Katharine Graham, Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Memoir

“As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world what was better than the real one. A world where there were adventures and mysteries and magic. Except, of course, books ended eventually, and then you had to go back to being yourself.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“The end result of all this was that many of us, by middle age, arrived at the state we were trying most to avoid: we bored our husbands, who had done their fair share in helping reduce us to this condition, and they wandered off to younger, greener pastures.”
― Katharine Graham, Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Memoir