Nonbearing Quotes & Sayings

Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here's a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down. — Peter Orner

I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America. — Rufus Wainwright

I read someplace that wanting to know everything about a person is wanting to possess them." "I believe that is probably true," Susan said. — Robert B. Parker

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order. — Jonah Lehrer

If the times are indeed as bad as we say they are ... if the darkness in our world is growing heavier by the moment ... if we are facing spiritual battles right in our own homes and churches ... then we are foolish not to turn to the One who supplies unlimited grace and power. He is our only source. We are crazy to ignore him. — Jim Cymbala