Best Of Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh It can be useful to acknowledge the cultural forces that carve us, or edifying to indulge in the tropes of our assigned narratives, but true distinctions of character, intelligence, talent, and skill exist at the level of the individual, not of the class— or the ethnicity, the gender, the sexual orientation, the religion, and so on. To claim otherwise, as we've discovered across time and countless persecutions of our own doing, is at best an insult and at worst an excuse for enslavement and genocide. p. 50 We don't consume news all day because we're hungry for information; we consume it because we're hungry for connection. That's the confusing conundrum for the twenty-first-century heart and mind: to be at once overinformed and grasping for meaning. p. 58 Objective hardship hones a keen sense of the difference, and chose for whom real...
