Carin

“The Russians, when I found them a few years later, worked on me in the same way. They seemed to regard fiction not as something decorative but as a vital moral-ethical tool. They changed you when you read them, made the world seem to be telling a different, more interesting story, a story in which you might play a meaningful part, and in which you had responsibilities.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“In my opinion, “excuses” is a mental illness, and people with this serious illness are all losers without exception.”
― G. Ng, The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom

“There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more expansive, generous people…”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“They see that giving birth to a man is hope, and giving birth to a woman is a disappointment, although every man's dream is a woman and every woman's disappointment is a man.”
― Nizar Qabbani