“At any time I felt I could do or say anything at all, and only afterward think: oh, so that’s the kind of person I am.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“This life-and-death matter just doesn’t seem to have answers.”
― We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
― We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
“One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
― The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
“White folks kill you if you want too much, kill you if you want too little.” Willie Lee shook his head, packing tobacco into his pipe. “You gotta follow they rules but they change ’em when they feel.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
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