Margaret Munzer

“Repair the world.” She shook her head. Said something both condescending and admiring about the hubris of the Jews. And then she looked at me with her smarter-than-everyone smile. “But don’t you know, Tricia,” she told me, “the Buddhists say, ‘Mend yourself.”
― Alice McDermott, Absolution

“For the kids who wake up hungry in those dark places every day, who’ve lost their families to poverty and pain pills, whose caseworkers keep losing their files, who feel invisible, or wish they were: this book is for you.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“A couple of hours here, a couple of hours there…they add up. How many of these things have we gone to? Plays and Suzuki concerts and dance recitals and karate tournaments and soccer games? And there are still four more years to get through. Not counting college. By the time Ashley graduates…” He rolled his eyes. “Our lives have fewer hours left all the time, we can’t be cavalier about a couple here and there. They’re precious. Like rare gems in a dwindling collection.”
― Erik Tarloff, All Our Yesterdays