Susan Ecker

“It was the last time he raised his hand. The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn’t have to live the way you’d been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“Aronowitz twirled in his chair and scurried into the workshop in the back, to more grunts. He reminded Carney of a squirrel in the park, darting helter-skelter after lost nuts. Maybe the other squirrels of Radio Row understood this behavior, but it was animal madness to this civilian.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“Even in their brief time together, Nora had come to understand the difference between infatuation and love. Infatuation was weather. Love was climate.”
― Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

“and know all, in only a moment. “Is it?” his mother says, her face white, stretched. “Is it what?” he says, feeling skittish and a little mad, therefore unable to keep himself from lapsing into verbal sparring. “Yours.” “Is what mine?” he returns, almost gleefully. Mary presses her lips together. “Did you put it there?” “Did I put what where?” At this point he is aware of Agnes turning her head to look at him—he can imagine her dark eyes on him, assessing, gathering information, like a spool gathers thread—but he still can’t stop.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet