Kristen Doerr

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it’s there, because it can’t hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Mom is polite and well mannered because she comes from Minnesota, where they value tablecloths and porcelain.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“going.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

“I read these words from Baldwin like they were some sort of dare: “You have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not its idea of you.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen