Rick Ellison

“One thing I’ve learned, Calvin: people will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It’s a lot easier to have faith in something you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t explain, and can’t change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can.” She sighed. “One’s self, I mean.” She tensed”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“When a girl didn’t have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self.”
― Dolly Parton, Run, Rose, Run

“All children belong to someone, I thought once again, and that includes those who have been left to the whims of chance.”
― Steve Pemberton, A Chance in the World

“Americans own more guns per capita than any other nation. Americans own nearly half of the guns in the world owned by civilians. The”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents