“ Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs. Mark Beauregard
“ Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering… Tobias Wolff
“ I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney. Lidia Yuknavitch
