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“White people desperately want to believe that only the lonely, isolated “whites only” club members are racist. This is why the word racist offends “nice white people” so deeply. It challenges their self-identification as good people. Sadly, most white people are more worried about being called racist than about whether or not their actions are in fact racist or harmful.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“But I am not impressed with America’s progress. I am not impressed that slavery was abolished or that Jim Crow ended. I feel no need to pat America on its back for these “achievements.” This is how it always should have been. Many call it progress, but I do not consider it praiseworthy that only within the last generation did America reach the baseline for human decency. As comedian Chris Rock says, I suppose these things were progress for white people, but damn. I hope there is progress I can sincerely applaud on the horizon. Because the extrajudicial killing of Black people is still too familiar. Because the racist rhetoric that Black people are lazier, more criminal, more undeserving than white people is still too familiar. Because the locking up of a disproportionate number of Black bodies is still too familiar. Because the beating of Black people in the streets is still too familiar. History is collapsing on itself once again.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Sometimes it’s the things that aren’t said that kill you.”
― Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

“Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.”
― Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

“Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“I have often heard it said that cowardice is the mother of cruelty, and I have found by experience that malicious and inhuman animosity and fierceness are usually accompanied by weakness. Wolves and filthy bears, and all the baser beasts, fall upon the dying.”
― William H. Armstrong, Sounder

“If a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming.”
― William H. Armstrong, Sounder

“Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“The truth sometimes lies in what we don’t say, rather than what we say.”
― Mary Kubica, Just the Nicest Couple

“A secret admirer. It’s not that much different than a stalker.”
― Mary Kubica, Just the Nicest Couple

“Hair is power. In the Bible, the source of Samson’s strength was his hair, and when the beautiful Delilah tricked him and cut it off, she stripped him of his power.”
― Freida McFadden, The Gift

“It’s ironic how the ones you care for most are the ones that are most easily able to crawl inside you and do damage.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“I’m sure Abel loved Cain right up until the very end.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“Never take anything you haven’t earned, my father used to say. You always end up paying for it one way or another.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves. They don’t know what a fragile balancing act it is to stay afloat and that if, God forbid, you momentarily slip underwater, how hard it is to resurface.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“I'll tell you what: If I could do it all over again, I'd spend more time helping others. All I've ever done is dig tunnels. Some of them were real beauties too, but they're all hidden underground, where they're no good to anyone but me.”
― Peter Brown, The Wild Robot

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“He did do a terrible thing,” the detective says. “I’ve never met anyone who had over thirty overdue library books before.” I grab a tissue from the box on the table and dab at my eyes. “I mean, two or three, yes, I can see how that could happen. Over ten would be bad enough. But over thirty?” “I know.” He sighs. “It’s the sort of thing you only see once in a lifetime as a cop, and you hope to never see it again.”
― Freida McFadden, The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie

“It’s funny about ‘passing.’ We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it.”
― Nella Larsen, Passing

“Sometimes when I find out what's on other people's minds I honestly wonder if we all live on totally separate planets.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Sometimes people do exactly what you think they’re going to do, and they still manage to disappoint you.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate