Len

“I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
― Paul Boese

“Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.”
― E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For