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Benefit Auction for Grow Nelson Library

“I was born with the devil in me . . . I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”

“We must never be a country that says there’s only one way to love, only one way to look, and only one way to live.”

“The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject.”

“The only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don’t fit the mold.”

“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy.”

“But when you’re inside it, the closet is vast.”

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

“More subtle than Kingsolver.”

“I think the hope has always been that you see what you see, and you take us anyway, for who we are.”

“What was this book about?”
