Reader 1964

“I, too, have been forced to stand close to it, and have felt the almost muscular agony of impotence before it, unable to interfere or assuage or do anything effective. Though I do—oh yes I do—believe the soul is improvable. Oh sweet and defiant hope! 5”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.”
― Dick Francis, Straight

“This country’s passion for property is built into the blood, a current as huge and primal as desire. Centuries of being turned out on the roadside at a landlord’s whim, helpless, teach your bones that everything in life hangs on owning your home.”
― Tana French, The Likeness

“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War