Bookshelf

“Something I wish every man across America understood is how much fear accompanies women throughout our lives. So many of us have been threatened or harmed. So many of us have helped friends recover from a traumatic incident. It’s difficult to convey what all this violence does to us. It adds up in our hearts and our nervous systems.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world is through reading.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017