Lynn

“She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.”
― Michael Chabon, Moonglow

“Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.”
― Michael Chabon, Moonglow

“This is a book about the dead, and the people who are left behind. It is also a personal story, written in my own voice, as a citizen of a nation I cannot recognize as my own. The thousands who died were killed with the permission of my people. I am writing this book because I refuse to offer mine.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“I realized that if I was going to assume the responsibility of writing about my home, I needed narrative ruthlessness. I couldn't dull the edges and fall in love with my characters and spare them. Life does not spare us.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones