Joyce

“No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Aren’t all great love stories, at their core, great mistakes?”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“How does one live amongst one’s fellow countrymen and countrywomen when you don’t know which of them is numbered amongst the sixty-million-plus who brought the horror to power, when you can’t tell who should be counted among the ninety-million-plus who shrugged and stayed home, or when your fellow Americans tell you that knowing things is elitist and they hate elites, and all you have ever had is your mind and you were brought up to believe in the loveliness of knowledge, not that knowledge-is-power nonsense, but knowledge is beauty, and then all of that, education, art, music, film, becomes a reason for being loathed…”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

“It's too simple to hate the people who have doorways where you have walls”
― Riley Redgate, Noteworthy