Category: Books on Tap
“I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”
“Sometimes, you will feel as if you have rowed right off the planet and are now rowing among the stars.”
“Just Go Knock on the Door!”
“Message in the Closet”
“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments when you shouldn’t be?”
“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.”
“The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject.”
“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy.”
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
“We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”
“More subtle than Kingsolver.”
