Laurena Byse

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with the daily environment in which I lived; and my reactions to this hostility fed upon itself, grew or diminished according to the news that reached me about the whites, according to what I aspired or hoped for. Tension would set in at the mere mention of whites and a vast complex of emotions, involving the whole of my personality, would be aroused. It was as though I was continuously reacting to the threat of some natural force whose hostile behavior could not be predicted. I had never in my life been abused by whites, but I had already become as conditioned to their existence as though I had been the victim of a thousand lynchings. I lived”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Which demomstrates the sad poverty of English launguage...”
― Susanna Clarke