Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are, and have been, totally known. Also, broadly disliked.
I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.
Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.
When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?
How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.
You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.
You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go. " She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.