Lauren Dorman

“I don't see how you can claim to own a place and treat it so poor, there are methods of getting what you want without tearing at the land like a pack of wild dogs.”
― C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

“Who are we after we’re gone? I wonder. It’s a good question to ponder. Most people can’t come up with an answer right away. They frown, consider it for a minute. Maybe even sleep on it. Then the answers start to come. We’re our children. Our grandchildren. Our great-grandchildren. We’re all the people who will go on to live, because we lived. We are our wisdom, our intellect, our beauty, filtered through generations, continuing to spill into the world and make a difference.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

“Fear makes money, and it makes laws, and it takes land, and it builds settlements, and fear likes to keep everyone silent.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“we are more than just our genes. We are, in some way, a product of the people who surround us—the people we’re forced to grow up with, and the people we choose to be with later.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family