Eileen

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“As his father made painfully clear that night, to deface the pages of a book was to adopt the manner of a Visigoth. It was to strike a blow against that most sacred and noble of man’s achievements—the ability to set down his finest ideas and sentiments so that they might be shared through the ages.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“In the first half of the 60s, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson started moving the nation toward social justice, passing civil rights laws in opposition to the well-known racism of the Dixiecrats. That bunch got mighty irascible. The idea that they might have to abandon their racism, parochialism, anti-federalism, and ignorant religion to continue living in a nation of decent people just got their blood a’boilin’.”
― Scott McMurrey, Asshole Nation: Trump and the Rise of Scum America