Donovan

“Being part white was something he'd just assumed. Even if he hadn't been white, everyone was raised with whiteness as the standard.....so you had it in you, even if you didn't. It was the background sound you only ever noticed got turned off in rare moments when the spotlight shifted temporarily.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“When it comes to the rich, things are very rarely called by their true names”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“It was a funny thing to be a disappointment because you were honest and assumed others might be too. The games people played made his head hurt.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“You get used to the amazing, that's all. Mermaids and IMAX, giants and cell phones. If it's in your world, you go with it. It's wonderful, right? Only look at it another way, and it's sort of awful. Think Gogmagog is scary? Our world is sitting on a potentially world-ending supply of nuclear weapons, and if that's not black magic, I don't know what is.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale