Charlie Flens

“It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. when a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

“Like most of the Jews in Suffolk they treated me very kindly, truly warm and welcoming, as if I were one of them which in an odd way I suppose I was. I found it odd and amazing when white people treated me that way, as if there were no barriers between us. It said a lot about this religion—Judaism—that some of its followers, old southern crackers who talked with southern twangs and wore straw hats, seemed to believe that its covenants went beyond the color of one’s skin.”
― James McBride, The Color of Water