Booth

by Karen Joy Fowler

No girl knows she’s ugly until someone tells her so and every ugly girl remembers the someone who first told her.

This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.

What if you were suddenly offered everything you ever wanted, but the offer came in a voice so sad, with a face so sorry, it made you wonder if you’d ever wanted it at all?

that freedom is God-given while the law is man-made. So any law that gives one man the ownership of another is a moral deformity and abhorrent to God.

One may smile and smile and be a villain.

Change is hard,” says Joe. “But change is life.”

Here’s the thing about John. You can talk to him. But you can’t make him listen.

“When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he’s trying to run away, it’s best to let him run,” Lincoln says.

How happy, how rich her life once was! John has murdered them all.

What happens to love when the person you love is a monster?