Clayton Bejger

“It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries.”
― John Hersey

“They [the stars] just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that's fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening.”
― M.L. Stedman

“Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye