“Anglos were perhaps the most dangerous storytellers of all—for they believed only their own words, and they allowed their stories to trample the truths of nearly every other man on Earth.”
― Woman of Light
― Woman of Light
“Hate is loud, but I think you’ll learn it’s because it’s only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“Stupid men and their stupid violence. Tearing apart everything good that was ever built. Why couldn't you ever just go after your life without tripping over some idiot's dick?”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“nothing more than to be you. You make yourselves a home out of nothing. You carry each other until your knees give out and you stumble. It’s almost impossible to understand. None of us could get that. Not until they felt a heart beating in a chest like I have. Not until I felt the bones beneath my skin. We’re not alike. Not really. We’re separated by time and space. And yet, somehow, we’re all made of dust and stars. I think we’d forgotten that. And I don’t know if you ever knew that to begin with. How can you be alone when we’re all the same?”
― The Bones Beneath My Skin
― The Bones Beneath My Skin
“And my friend the mole, oh how I love my old friend the mole. In these days that grow ever darker as fears gather and autumn comes on, I remember again and again how much we all share with this soft, solitary creature trundling through invisible tunnels in the dark, hungry and blind but working so hard to move forward all the same.”
― Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
― Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
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