Great Johnson

“hundred years, and we still ain’t American to them, T. All that blood. We built America. Black labor built the greatest nation in the world for free. They ripped us from our family then, and they do it again with new laws disguised as change. I’ll be in prison doing that labor for free.”
― Kim Johnson, This Is My America

“I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“...everything about it is an uphill battle. But you get up. Over and over. Just to take another punch. Another hit. [...] But when you get up, that one final time, battered and bloody and not sure you can take one more blow, it teaches you how to heal. And then you go out, and heal others.”
― Mazey Eddings, A Brush with Love

“If the human soul has an afterlife, has a will, then his would be here for rest, and Alisa has no doubt that Juliette's would follow.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends