Showing posts with label Random House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random House. Show all posts

 

"The twisted inversion that many children of immigrants know is that, at some point, your parents become your children, and your own personal American dream becomes making sure they age and die with dignity in a country that has never wanted them."

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The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

 

"But what if one's real context is books? Some days, going from one book to another, preoccupied with thoughts that were of no importance, I would feel a rare moment of serenity: all that could not be solved in my life was merely a trifle as long as I kept it at a distance. Between that suspended life and myself  were these dead people and imagined characters. One could spend one's days among them as a child arranges a circle of stuffed animals when the darkness of night closes in."
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li

"Mutual understanding in the world being nearly always, as now, at low ebb, it is comforting to remember that it is through art that one country can nearly always speak reliably to another, if the other can hear at all."
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The Eye of the Story by Eudora Welty

"Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of value. And how they seemed to want you to collude on your own judgment."

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The Girls by Emma Cline

"The truth was always that you were our ring. We'd summoned you out of ourselves, and you were not given a vote."


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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

"A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An aberration. A blunder. But a third time?...A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you."
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Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum

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