Sarah

“Anyone can be a mother, I think. A lot of people are mothers, and you don’t get paid for any of it. Seems like a lifetime internship. You never know if you’re doing things right, and someone is always telling you the ways you’re doing it wrong.”
― Souvankham Thammavongsa, Pick a Colour

“I’m expecting to open this book in ten years and cringe like I’m staring at a picture of myself with a bad haircut. I’m looking forward to it.”
― David Chang, Eat a Peach

“Zac had never been a particularly reliable narrator of his own life, but even in the darkest moments of the past two years, neither Matthew nor Rachelle had ever guessed that he could be running around adult London pretending to be somebody else altogether—much less doing so in a manner that real adults, people of substance, might actually fall for.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

“In 1900, George and Clara Morris and their four children, Samuel, Selma, Marcella, and Malvina, left Bucharest, Romania, and boarded a ship for New York City. When they arrived in the United States, they stayed in New York City for a few weeks and then decided to move to Los Angeles, where George wanted to become a director in the movie business. Along the way, in St. Louis, Clara had another baby and died in childbirth. George put the children in an orphanage there before heading on to Los Angeles, where he promised to send for them. The children stayed in the orphanage until the oldest child, Marcella, was able to make enough money to get them all out. She moved them back to New York City, where she became the first Jewish female to hold a seat on the Wall Street stock exchange, where she made millions of dollars that she later gave to Brandeis University. She lived with her sisters in an apartment on Charles Street in Greenwich Village and had a house in Southampton, New York, and somewhere along the way had an affair with J. P. Morgan. Interesting? You bet. But don’t worry about remembering any of this, because it’s 90 percent wrong, which I didn’t find out until years later.”
― Julie Klam, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction