“my book Lower Ed is fundamentally about.4 It is what all of my work is about.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“People were stupid. Pigs were infinitely more worthwhile.”
― Winterkeep
― Winterkeep
“You should pack up your statuary and go home.”
― The Golden Enclaves
― The Golden Enclaves
“This was the true violence Mr. Locke had done to me. You don’t really know how fragile and fleeting your own voice is until you watch a rich man take it away as easily as signing a bank loan.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“When I saw those toenails,” Mary told me years later, “I nearly fainted. I thought, Oh jeez, she’s a real person. I started imagining her sitting in her bathroom painting those toenails, and it hit me for the first time that those cells we’d been working with all this time and sending all over the world, they came from a live woman. I’d never thought of it that way.”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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