We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.
Louise ErdrichShe had always been a readerโฆ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheโd been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the nextโฆThe pleasure of this sort of life โ bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life โ had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after anotherโฆThat she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
Louise Erdrich