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“She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.
Coronado: Stories”
― Dennis Lehane

“Only boring people get bored.”
― Ruth Burke

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
― James Lee Burke, Swan Peak

“The boos always come from the cheap seats.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others”
― James Lee Burke

“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.”
― James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo wolves, but I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which was the whites were willing to trade all their freedom to live longer and eat better, and the Comanches were not willing to trade any of it.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat your crime.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about work. They became desperate to excuse their own laziness.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“I have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be raised in white families, never take to it at all.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“My brother began to cry out in his sleep; I started to shake him, then stopped. There wasn’t any dream he could be having that would be as bad as waking up.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“After decades away from the Midwest, she’d forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest

“What people don’t understand about deer is that they’re vermin. They’re giant, furry cockroaches. They invade a space, reproduce like hell, and eat everything in sight.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“What we think is impossible happens all the time.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer