It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
A library is a feast to which we are all invited.
The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.