Sarah

“It's good to be sorry - but don't make a fetish of it. The one good thing about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition. Yours was a venial sin, Vivian, but not a mortal one.' 'I don't know what that means.' 'I'm not sure I do, either. It's just something I once read. Here is what I do know, however: sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life. As you've now learned.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“Today, we depict blacks as dangerous, a portrayal that perverts the true direction of violence between whites and blacks since the founding of this country.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“My dad is gone now and so is that Seattle, but walking in the places he walked, puffing up the same hills, turning the same corners, I feel him in the ridges and grooves of my city--we are close, superimposed, separated only by time, and what's that? This is the only religion that I can relate to.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming