JP

“Did you have Lockdown Mondays when you were in kindergarten?” Jennifer says. I tell her no, we didn’t. “How come?” “I . . . Things were different then.”
― Eric Rickstad, Lilith

“I don’t want to be exceptional. I just want to ride my bike.”
― Eric Rickstad, Lilith

“Call them gooks, call them niggers, call them kikes, micks, spics, wops, or frogs, call them whatever you want as long as you call them something—anything—that removes one layer of human being from their bodies when you think of them. That’s the goal. If you can do that, you can get kids to cross oceans to kill other kids, or you can get them to stay right here at home and do the same thing.”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies

“You raised a child who thought hating people because God made them a different shade of skin was okay. You allowed that hate. You probably fostered it. And your little child and her racist friends, who were all raised by racist parents just like you, were sent out into the world like little fucking hand grenades of hate and stupidity”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies