September 16, 2018September 10, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

“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.”

September 2, 2018August 31, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

“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.”

August 7, 2018August 3, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

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

August 5, 2018August 3, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

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

July 15, 2018July 12, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

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

July 9, 2018July 16, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

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

June 15, 2018June 14, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

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

April 16, 2018 JMRL Blog

“More subtle than Kingsolver.”

February 10, 2018February 8, 2018 JMRL Blog

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

December 9, 2017 JMRL Blog

“What was this book about?”

October 11, 2017October 11, 2017 JMRL Blog

“Sometimes it is better to imagine a past than remember it.”

September 19, 2017 JMRL Blog

“I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”