Mary

“You belong to society, you give to society.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys

“Polish man is a Polish man, he’d often say to us, because to my father, a man’s heritage and religion were irrelevant—Father was interested only in character and work ethic. But this was not a perspective that our whole community shared, and those ugly strains of anti-Semitism enraged my otherwise mild-mannered father.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick