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I sat in those pews the more I learned about how Christianity works: If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. But when white people pray to
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“Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? -Jamie”
― Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
― Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
“Maybe it would be easier if we were allowed to yell? The public librarian has been typecast. We're supposed to whisper and shush, demand silence, when in reality we work our asses off trying to help people speak up. Maybe it seems safer for us to whisper. Because maybe if we could shout, it would shake the walls down.”
― Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
― Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
“I didn't know how to explain to him that for all that I still looked young, I had been feeling old. The years had passed, so many of them, and they were starting to wear on me. After a while it wasn't fun to always feel like you had to have fun. -Jamie”
― Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
― Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
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