October 21, 2018October 20, 2018 JMRL Central Reference

“Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human.”

September 16, 2018December 7, 2022 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 19, 2018December 7, 2022 JMRL Central Reference

“No coincidence, no story.”

August 7, 2018December 7, 2022 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, 2018December 8, 2022 JMRL Central Reference

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

July 15, 2018December 8, 2022 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.”

July 2, 2018December 8, 2022 JMRL Central Reference

“People who see themselves as victims sometimes don’t notice when they become oppressors.”

May 25, 2018December 8, 2022 JMRL Central Reference

“We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”

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.”