Sarah

“My heart felt like a balloon that was filling too full, and I panicked. I might get the bends, the way scuba divers did when they surfaced too fast.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“A magician came to entertain us, and I was mesmerized by his beautiful hands, his fluid, round gestures. I couldn't stop watching his hands. They were better than any of his tricks. He pulled a bouquet of paper flowers out of the air and gave them to me with a courtly bow, and I thought love was like that, pulled out of the air, something bright and unlikely.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“What is missing from this liberal approach is any critical assessment of what problems the state is asking the police to solve and whether the police are really the best suited to solve them.”
― Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing