One Great Moment

"As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

— Margaret Atwood, from her dystopian novel "The Testaments"
"The third is when you can make a basket without worrying about whether it is good enough."

“The third is when you can make a basket without worrying about whether it is good enough.”

—From "Deep River," a novel by Karl Marlantes
"How dare you..."

“How dare you…”

—Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, to the United Nations
"Problems that are not seen cannot be addressed."

“Problems that are not seen cannot be addressed.”

—From "She Said," by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New York Times
“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

— Cally Carswell from "Drought, dread and family in the American Southwest" in High Country News

“Sometimes a story deserves a new look.”

—Investigative reporter Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald
"Truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe."

“Truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe.”

—Jack Holmes, politics editor at Esquire
"As I wrote, I was also being written."

“As I wrote, I was also being written.”

—Siri Hustvedt, in her novel "Memories of the Future"
"There are more what-ifs than there are stars in the sky."

“There are more what-ifs than there are stars in the sky.”

—New Yorker writer Jill Lepore, in a profile of Ruth Bader Ginsberg
"A true war story is never moral."

“A true war story is never moral.”

—Tim O'Brien, from his novel "The Things They Carried"