"Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good."

-- Victor LaValle

#Pain Quotes #Book Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.”
“I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.”

Source : "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.
“I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.”

Source : Henry Scougal (2013). “The Life of God in the Soul of Man”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.”
“When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”
“When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!”

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