Peter

“Hope itself wasn’t necessarily kind. Or a good thing.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“Utah. She has followed back roads from Las Vegas, capital of clueless sinners, toward Salt Lake, capital of cunning saints.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“People’s wishes for their own lives tend to outweigh others’ ideas about how they should behave.” She paused. “We must bend in the wind sometimes, Jamie. So much is beyond our control.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“So even very young she saw slavery as an ancient practice arising because rich people would rather not do hard work, and also from the tendency of people to clench hard to advantageous passages in the Bible and dismiss the rest.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina