“'Tenderness, violence, animosity, and compassion are the outer edges of what feels like a total map of the human condition.'”— The New Yorker, newyorker.com
“Now that 2018 is rolling to a close (good riddance) it's time to reflect on everything that happened this year.”— Marie Claire, marieclaire.com
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”— Kate Chopin, amazon.com
“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com