Rachel

“Is it weird,” he says outside a teashop, “that I feel so safe here?” I lift a curious eyebrow. “Everyone looks like”—his eyelashes flutter when he inhales—“like me.” All around, there are gorgeous shades of brown. Rich dark complexions. Warm sepia skin and cool russet tones. Different faces, body shapes, each person carrying their own swagger. For once, Reiss and I aren’t two Black boys in a pale sea, like at Willow Wood. Here, Reiss doesn’t stand out. He’s one of us.”
― Julian Winters, Prince of the Palisades

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg