Janet Schneider

“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Backseat Saints

“--he could feel the outside world closing in on him, demanding his consideration, but as long as he stayed by himself in the woods he was able to remain true to his refusal. He came from a long line of refusers, he had the constitution for it. There seemed to be almost nothing left of Lalitha; she was breaking up on him the way dead songbirds did in the wild--they were impossibly light to begin with, and as soon as their little hearts stopped beating they were barely more than bits of fluff and hollow bone, easily scattered in the wind--but this only made him more determined to hold on to what little of her he still had.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.”
― Elena Mauli Shapiro, 13, rue Thérèse

“Ben shrugged his shoulders. "I find that people who have good luck in their lives tend to have good luck medically." Perhaps there is truth in this.”
― Sally Ryder Brady, A Box of Darkness: The Story of a Marriage