Adrienne

“Escape at Dannemora.”
― Kristin van Ogtrop, Did I Say That Out Loud?: Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them

“Two's description of reading Lord of the Flies for school:

It is only 208 pages, I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it.”
― Laurie Frankel, One Two Three

“not everything irrepressible. (Delight: a T-shirt I saw that read, “Make it scary to be a racist again.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

“Perhaps even more than he hated environmental laws, Menard hated labor unions. “The Manager’s income shall be automatically reduced by sixty percent (60%) of what it would have been if a union of any type is recognized within your particular operation during the term of this Agreement,” read an employment contract managers were required to sign. “If a union wins an election during this time, your income will automatically be reduced by sixty percent (60%).”
― Brian Alexander, The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town