One Great Moment

"We start with more questions than answers..."

“We start with more questions than answers…”

—Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron in a retirement letter to the staff
"The mountains on the horizon ..."

“The mountains on the horizon …”

— Tana French in her novel "The Searcher"
"He was old enough to dance to a good beat but too young to know his favorite color."

“He was old enough to dance to a good beat but too young to know his favorite color.”

—Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams of The Washington Post, in a story about the spike in gun violence in Washington D.C.
“... a common appreciation for truth.”

“… a common appreciation for truth.”

—Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin
E Pluribus Unnerved

E Pluribus Unnerved

—A fleeting headline on an Election Day story by the New York Times
"His work is a parable ..."

“His work is a parable …”

—Kurt Streeter in the New York Times, writing about Minneapolis cop and high school football coach Charles Adams
"They told me their stories, gave them to me for keeping, which I did, always listening, always remembering."

“They told me their stories, gave them to me for keeping, which I did, always listening, always remembering.”

—From the novel "The Water Dancer" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"... between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure."

“… between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure.”

—Classical music critic Michael Andor Brodeur of the Washington Post
"His conversation is so delightfully sauced ..."

“His conversation is so delightfully sauced …”

—Robin Wall Kimmerer from an essay in "Braiding Sweetgrass"
"Violence of the light miraculous."

“Violence of the light miraculous.”

—From the novel "The Dust That Falls from Dreams" by Louis de Bernieres