

“I'd rather have you five days a year than anyone else all the time. I'd rather argue with you than not talk, and whether we're together or we're not, I'm yours, so let's be together... As much as we can. As long as we can. As soon as we can. Everything else, we'll figure out later.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place

“Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time. All you can do is point yourself in a direction and hope the wind will let you get there.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place

“A housing inspector does not make the repairs on the building he had examined. It is for the owners, meaning each of us, to correct the ruptures we have inherited.
The fact is that the bottom cate, though it bears much of the burden of the hierarchy, did not create the caste system, and the bottom caste alone cannot fix it.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The fact is that the bottom cate, though it bears much of the burden of the hierarchy, did not create the caste system, and the bottom caste alone cannot fix it.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“The right kind of leader can inspire a symbiotic connection that supplants logic.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“The fixation with smoking out individual racists or sexists can seem a losing battle in which we fool ourselves into thinking we are rooting out injustice by forcing an admission that (a) is not likely to come, (b) keeps the focus on a single individual rather than the system that created that individual, and (c) gives cover for those who, by aiming at others, can present themselves as noble and bias-free for having pointed the finger first, all of which keeps the hierarchy intact.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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