Elizabeth Jackson

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this form upon my head When there is such disorder in my wit.”
― Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow

“India’s citizenship practices since its founding have been liberal and secular. But under the control of BJP”
― Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“For the first time in history, the individual is the basic unit of society,” the journalist Bill Bishop, the author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, from 2008, told me. “People don’t want community; they want a platform.”[14]”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

“Average tuition has more than tripled since I went to college, and the neediest students now have only roughly a third of their costs covered by Pell Grants,[20] thanks to paltry budget allotments advanced by Congress and state legislatures headed by both parties. Had I been born just a decade later, I would not have been able to go to college.”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America