Jamie

“To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“There is no sound so sweet as the sound of chains that held folks back for so long falling noisily to the ground. And it's still true: Once we can reimagine and resist in significant numbers, we will rise again, reaching new heights and setting better foundations for living and loving, for building a new world.”
― Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto

“The books we read in literature classes--just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail

“The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad