Charlie

“What a sensation to know someone well enough to hear the cadence of their silence.”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“For which you blame my gender,” he finished. “Who else? It is men who have kept women downtrodden and poorly educated”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“Victor smiled at the challenge. A quick step forward, and Eli tried to step back on instinct but met the wall and Victor met him. The knife slid in. It was easier than he imagined. Like a vanishing act, one moment the metal glinted and the next it was gone, buried in Eli’s stomach to the hilt.”
― Victoria E. Schwab, Vicious

“The Marshall family then sued a county police officer who had been identified as a member of the Klan. The officer testified that about half of the forty Klan members known to him were also in the police department and that his superiors condoned officers’ Klan membership, as long as the information did not become public.”
― Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America