Ari

“Ghosts are what white people put in storybooks and picture shows. They do it to scare people about the dead. The church does the same. It’s about making people afraid. I’m sure they know nothing about the good of a person’s spirit and how it comes forward after death.”
― Tony Birch, The White Girl

“It never failed to surprise Odette how white people were always going on about uplifting Aboriginal people, yet they would demand information about the old ways when it suited them.”
― Tony Birch, The White Girl

“He said your people were destitute and had no choice but to give you to him. You were found running around all alone, naked, he said.” A level of shock began to form inside me. “Why would he say that, when it is untrue?”
― Lola Jaye, The Attic Child

“Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. ”
― Rick Riordan