Joanne

“Many a morning the hapless Feldman would find his garbled interpretations of Jewish law amended by the pretty housewife whose sharp Talmudic corrections from behind the curtain fluttered into the air like butterflies as she piped out, “Karl, what are you talking about? There are four different versions of how Cain died!”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by…but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“I’m happy to be alive,” and what the difference was, and how one’s tribe cannot be better than another tribe because they were all one tribe.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“It passeth understanding, thought Ferris. It passeth all understanding.

Where were those words from? Had Charisse read them to her? Had she read then to Charisse?”
― Kate DeCamillo