Elijah Dougherty

“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world’s sweetest cancer.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me