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“It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents 1
“But you have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― Studies in Classic American Literature
― Studies in Classic American Literature
“The park sustained them, the green harbor they preserved as the town extended itself outward, block by block and house by house. Cora thought of her garden back on Randall, the plot she cherished. Now she saw it for the joke it was - a tiny square of dirt that had convinced her she owned something. It was hers like the cotton she seeded, weeded, and picked was hers. Her plot was a shadow of something that lived elsewhere, out of sight. The way poor Michael reciting the Declaration of Independence was an echo of something that existed elsewhere. Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“Unlock the door?' he asks.
This family is an experiment, the biggest I've ever been part of, an experiment called: How do you let someone in?
'Unlock the door,' he says again. 'Please.'
I release the lock. I open the door. That's the best definition of love.”
― The Dark Dark
This family is an experiment, the biggest I've ever been part of, an experiment called: How do you let someone in?
'Unlock the door,' he says again. 'Please.'
I release the lock. I open the door. That's the best definition of love.”
― The Dark Dark
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