Amanda Tatum

“History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“The girls shone “like the watches did in the darkroom,”8 as though they themselves were timepieces, counting down the seconds as they passed. They glowed like ghosts as they walked home through the streets of Orange.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

“People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“Everything was hollow. Everything except for my heart. And having an abundant heart in a hollow world was an affliction I was helpless to overcome.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Older