Winona Wee

“It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles