Lakeisha Parthemer

“Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

“Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities