(7 quotes found)
“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
Stefan Kanfer
“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”
“They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.”
“Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.”
“There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.”
“They were real pioneers,”
“She was a very acute observer.”