Category: Brown Bagger’s Book Group
“Each of Us Is More Than the Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done.”
“Parents always want to manage the narrative instead of letting kids write their own.”
Brown Baggers 2020 Holiday Potluck
“The tattooing has taken only seconds, but Lale’s shock makes time stand still.”
“Valor rarely reaps the dividends it should.”
“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
“What kind of idiot goes on a picnic and ends up buying a house?”
“I never understood why people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
“At that moment, for the first time ever, I felt I’d become a part in the machine of society. I’ve been reborn, I thought.”
