Madison Emrey

“She described for me the powerful magnet that Hitler was to German youth. The youth had lost their sense of belonging. They did not count; there was no center of hope for their marginal egos. According to my friend, Hitler told them: “No one loves you—I love you; no one will give you work—I will give you work; no one wants you—I want you.” And when they saw the sunlight in his eyes, they dropped their tools and followed him. He stabilized the ego of the German youth, and put it within their power to overcome their sense of inferiority. It is true that in the hands of a man like Hitler, power is exploited and turned to ends which make for havoc and misery; but this should not cause us to ignore the basic soundness of the theory upon which he operated. A”
― Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

“Straight girls do that all the time. That's why being a lesbian is so confusing.”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I do not think we have a right to withhold from the world a word or a thought any more than a deed which might help a single soul.”
― Helen Hunt Jackson