Jessica Schad Manuel

“The consummation of a revelation is always dependent upon its genesis.”
― Grant Horner, Meaning at the Movies: Becoming a Discerning Viewer

“It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“To her, though, nothing could have been more serious, and she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader