January 8, 2019 JMRL Blog “Sometimes, you will feel as if you have rowed right off the planet and are now rowing among the stars.”
October 17, 2018 JMRL Blog “What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments when you shouldn’t be?”
September 16, 2018 JMRL Blog “I was born with the devil in me . . . I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
August 7, 2018 JMRL Blog “The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject.”
June 15, 2018 JMRL Blog “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
May 25, 2018 JMRL Blog “We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”
February 10, 2018 JMRL Blog “I think the hope has always been that you see what you see, and you take us anyway, for who we are.”