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Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.
“Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but 'created equal' was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if 'all men' did not truly mean all men.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
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