Paula Katon

“Don’t let anyone shame you for your love of an imaginary friend. Religions have been founded on less.”
― Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

“It was the sudden memory of Jane Houlton in the waiting room that caused Olive to walk to the bed—the freedom of that ordinary banter, because Jack, in the doctor’s office, had needed her, had given her a place in the world.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Working-class whites, the preeminent social economist Gunnar Myrdal wrote, “need the demarcations of caste more than upper class whites. They are the people likely to stress aggressively that no Negro can ever attain the status of even the lowest white.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“she only ever seemed to bring out the worst in men. They either wanted to control her, touch her, dominate her, silence her, correct her, or tell her what to do.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry