February 26, 2020July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
January 24, 2020July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Libraries were havens for everyone, he might’ve told her, not just the clean and productive.”
November 26, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “When you hear stories from people like you, you feel less alone. When you feel less alone, and like you have a community of people behind you, alongside you, I believe you can live a better life.”
October 22, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists”
September 23, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing? You kill them in the middle of nowhere.”
August 20, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “That was my fight: to continue to do little things for people around me, so no one would find fault in my demeanor and misattribute it to my religion.”
July 23, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”
June 21, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Standing in the doorway of the newspaper’s office, he watched the streetcar continue on its eastward way, and he knew that if he lived to be a hundred, he would never be more in love than he was now.”
May 21, 2019 JMRL Blog “Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
April 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
March 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”