"Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted." -Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, p. 238

"One could move from discipline and punishment to discipling and punishing, from social ostracism to social rank." - Morrison, Playing in the Dark Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, p.35

"But almghtie God (by his divine providence) had mollified the hearts of those sterne Barbarians with compassion." - John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, p. 2

"Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest! But I'll plead no more. I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, one I will never tear it free!" -Miller, The Crucible, p.62

"She made me do it! She made Betty do it!" Miller, The Crucible, p.43

"My name, he wants my name 'I'll murder you,' he says 'If my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,' he says!" Miller, The Crucible, p.119

"Martha, my wife. I have walked at night many a time and found her in a corner, reading' of a book. Now what do you make of that?" -Miller, The Crucible, p.40