Steve Masler

“Nowhere does time slow down more gently than inside a museum,”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“His party had given up on liberalism. They didn’t even use the word anymore. They said instead that they were “progressives,” as if any movement into the future was necessarily better than the status quo. The Left had an illiberal streak that no one seemed willing to talk about, and Frank could see it in his colleagues’ reaction when he refused to join in the rending of garments over advocating invasion.”
― Christopher R. Beha, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

“didn’t so much aspire to equality as I desired to eliminate inequality.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

“An army of tears lay just behind her eyes, but they refused to decamp.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry