from James

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

~ James Baldwin ~

from Eleanor

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other kind of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~