Denise L.

“I had already come to understand the tidiness of lies, the lesson learned from the stories told by white people seeking to justify my circumstance. I appreciated Voltaire’s notion of tolerance regarding religious difference and I understood, as absorbed as I was, that I was not interested in the content of the work, but its structure, the movement of it, the calling out of logical fallacies. And so, after these books, the Bible itself was the least interesting of all. I could not enter it, did not want to enter it, and then understood that I recognized it as a tool of my enemy. I chose the word enemy, and still do, as oppressor necessarily supposes a victim.”
― Percival Everett, James

“A parent’s love is surely strong enough to occasionally crash through the barrier dividing heaven and earth.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“That was him all right, a heap of creaky floorboards and busted windows. Aches and agonies squatted in him, unwanted tenants in his extremities and joints.”
― Colson Whitehead, Cool Machine

“Everyone loves a particular version of you, and when that person is gone, that version goes with them.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment