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“God can be everywhere at the same time if he wants, but he ain’t in every building that calls itself a church. You can stand in a pulpit and call yourself a minister. I can roll around in mud and call myself a pig too. Don’t mean you was called to preach, and it don’t mean I was meant to be pork chops,”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“If a man decides you aren’t his friend, then you look like a fool trying to hang on to that title.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Davy, if your cousin ain’t a racist, he is mighty goddamn comfortable with being around racists. That’s a distinction without a difference.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“It occurred to him no place was more confused by its past or more terrified of the future than the South.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“The years don’t slow down any as they pass.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“life,”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“What it is to be a man,’ she said, ‘and to have days off.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“The fact was that he would pay for it but never once in his whole and unremarkable life had he known a happiness akin to this, not even when his infant girls were first placed in his arms and he had heard their healthy, obstinate cries.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power.”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

“Men theorize about love, but women are more often love’s practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“We want to know love. We are simply afraid the desire to know too much about love will lead us closer and closer to the abyss of lovelessness.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions