Dalton Chapen

“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”
― Maya Angelou

“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus