Laura Jackson

“One side made the discussion about racism—looking down at the case from ten thousand feet. The other side examined each detail of each case with a magnifying glass. What was the police officer like? What did he do, precisely? One side saw a forest, but no trees. The other side saw trees and no forest.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

“If Capitalism is a disease, then it's one that eats your flesh -- and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that harvest to tourists who pay to visit your headstone.”
― Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Go as far as you can—way out yonder where the crawdads sing.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing