Joe K.

“But if our paths cross in a legitimate way, Master Boq, I will do you the courtesy at least of not ignoring you. I trust you will be satisfied with that.” “Never,” said Boq with a smile, “but it’s a start.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Claire obeyed, thinking that for the first time, she knew why Miss Haskell and Miss Wing were lifers here. Because for every McCarthy this country threw at you, it also threw a Margaret Chase Smith. And by god, when you found one, you backed her up because she was going to find herself in a lot of tight corners.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“Gloria felt herself floating toward a great open space where her anger at Papa could free her. But she would not, could not, take another step toward that void. Papa was a good man—an important man, Reverend Jenkins and the rest of the back-porch men said—and all important people made sacrifices.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them away. And we have been told that they may come tonight.” “I don’t understand! Take them where?” Her father shook his head. “We don’t know where, and we don’t really know why. They call it ‘relocation.’ We don’t even know what that means. We only know that it is wrong, and it is dangerous, and we must help.”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars