Chuck Bunting

“The world, he believed, is a globe of men who are trying to reach one another and can best do so by the help of good will plus culture and intelligence—”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I am not at all the sort of person who attracts attention, I am an anonymous presence against an even more anonymous background.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Link, there hasn’t been time for me to give you much of a formal Jewish education. But you might remember from Sunday school some of the stories of the Old Testament. God forgives us—and by doing that, God shows us how to forgive each other. Even more important, those of us who’ve been forgiven spend the rest of our lives trying to be worthy of that forgiveness.”
― Gordon Korman, Linked