Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free. David Ebershoff Read Quote
I first read ‘The Scarlet Letter’ when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people. David Ebershoff Read Quote
Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era. David Ebershoff Read Quote
History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up. David Ebershoff Read Quote
When I see someone interesting on the subway – the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons – my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going? David Ebershoff Read Quote
If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religion and would never have moved into mainstream American culture. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrives. It is one of the fastest growing religions in the country and is the most successful American-born religion. David Ebershoff Read Quote
I always love novels that open up a subject to me – like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside. David Ebershoff Read Quote
We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, ‘That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.’ David Ebershoff Read Quote
