“Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true.” — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“We were what we had in life, I thought, and I was not sad about it or apologetic for its corniness.” — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“Appreciate the liars. When people don’t hide things, it means they don’t care enough to be afraid of losing you.” — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“There were moments when you knew things about what was inside of people you didn’t want to, knew how deeply they could disappoint you.… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“Still, she wondered sometimes if it wasn't all pretense—if, when she shut her eyes and wished restitution upon the whole wounded parade of humanity,… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“she's like a crayon drawing he's handing me, and like her or not I'll have to pin her to my refrigerator for years.” — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“Don’t push too hard; your last chance to see a person the way you wanted them to be may come at any moment.” — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“The money was such an obvious problem that I didn't even get to thinking about any of the others most of the time. It… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
