RECENT READS: FICTION
PAST FICTION READS
“…it was all performance just the same.”
~Brit Bennett
“we could either decide to be crushed by the weight of history, and modern-day atrocities, or we could go into warrior pose.”
~Bernardine Evaristo
“I don't need you to be mad that it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like... happens.”
~ Kiley Reid
“If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
~Ocean Vuong
“But knowing now the awesome power of memory, how it can open a blue door from one world to another, how it can move us from mountains to meadows…”
~Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.”
~ Madeline Miller
“To understand everything is to forgive.”
~ Lisa See
"grief tasted like hunger, felt like numbness, sounded like silence...Grief was a shapeshifter, and invisible too..."
~Kamila Shamsie
"Weakness is treating someone as if they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves."
~Yaa Gyasi
"Wider ranges of normal make the world a better place for everyone."
~Laurie Frankel
"The dead move on, but the living, we just stay here."
~Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe."
~Jesmyn Ward
“I don’t believe that blood makes a family; kin is the circle you create, hands held tight”
~Tayari Jones
“Families came apart and regrouped…Like water. In this desert, families were the water.”
~Luis Alberto Urrea
“But I did fight. I tried to leave every human I have interacted with better than or the same as when I encountered them…It was the way I wanted to move through the world.”
~ Fatima Farheen Mirza
“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
~Pat Barker
