Tomika Whyel

“Her hands trembled as she pressed them together to make them stop, for Kapugen had taught her that fear can so cripple a person that he cannot think or act. Already she was too scared to crawl.
"Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.”
― Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves

“He was beautiful.
The knight was beautiful, handsome when he smiled.
He didn’t want anyone to see it.
He didn’t want to acknowledge it himself.
But for a brief moment, I saw him. The real man inside of him, not the one tortured by secrets and pain.
And he was beautiful.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Jerusalem takes you in and puts you under its exotic, opulent spell in a way few other cities can.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“HeLa cells were one of the most important things that happened to medicine in the last hundred years,” Defler said. Then, matter-of-factly, almost as an afterthought, he said, “She was a black woman.” He erased her name in one fast swipe and blew the chalk from his hands. Class was over.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks