Jeneane Vanderhoof

“I have looked many men in the eye. Some I deemed villains, liars, and beasts. Others, more trustworthy than clergy. A binary discussion, assigning simply black or white, is a stunted reading of these individuals, the death of, "Why?" The color black is an unintelligible void and white, an incoherent scream, each lacking the constructive facts shrouded in the other. Only through shades of each is there an understanding of reality, any conception of an image. And so, I've sought them, these violent shades of gray.
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― JR Hazard, Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987

“I don't care who you are because I care who I am," she would say fiercely.”
― Acacia Warmerdam, The Girl Who Sleeps in the Moon

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“Intelligence can only get you so far. True genius isn't in merely being smart, it's knowing how to wield your own intelligence, and that of others."
- Blas Escobedo, father of Ron, characters in All Better Now written by Neal Shusterman, pub. Feb 2025”
― Neal Shusterman (Author)