Ruby Hofeling

“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

“Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter