Laura

“Amber says, "I'm pretty sure sponsorship involves no weaseling. Or ferreting or mousing or anything else rodent related.”
― Katie Cicatelli-Kuc, Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

“In 1944, dozens of these principaled objectors were transferred to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. I'm proud of them, and I consider them just as heroic as those who fought on foreign battlefields. Though they responded in different ways -- caring for their families, fighting on the battlefield, or serving time for their principles -- all these Japanese Americans showed incredible courage and heroism. They proved that being American is not just for some people. They all made difficult choices to demonstrate their patriotism to this country, even when it rejected them.”
― George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

“These were emotions she didn't know how to carry. There was the insult of having her death celebrated when she wasn't even dead. When she was, in fact, amidst them all right now, and only out here because they'd sent killers to fail in her home.

But this? To be dying from the poison of those assassins, and while looking for emergency food to survive the injury, to be told by a drunk rich boy with inconvenient hair that she had never really existed? Now their songs made unkind sense to her. This revelry was a kind of fear, for hatred was the fear people let themselves enjoy.

Never had she imagined such a thing. Humans were so creative in their disappointments.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“One cup exactly," I say quietly.

"Are you seriously whispering?" he asks.

I look away from my cup of cream just long enough to glare at him.

"Does the volume of someone's voice also affect how a recipe turns out?" he says.

I keep glaring at him.

"Should I sing to the cream?”
― Katie Cicatelli-Kuc, Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice