“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.” WantChildrenPersonsMatterReasonParentDifficultOur ChildrenDareStrangerWho We AreMatesDifficult Things Author:Russell Banks
“One hates a person for the same reason one loves him” PersonsReasonHateOne Love Author:Russell Banks
“One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.” BookRealReasonShowsMotivationEasySimpleViewsComplexesBraids Author:Russell Banks