Ms. Davis

“The ultimate survival game is for girls to survive into adulthood. For the prey to avoid the predators. It’s a wry thought that turns somber when I remember my sister. Some girls don’t survive.”
― Angeline Boulley, Sisters in the Wind

“Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“The collective history of this sad troupe moving down the hospital corridor would become tiny blots in an American future that would one day scramble their proud histories like eggs, scattering them among the population while feeding mental junk to the populace on devices that would become as common and small as the hot dog that the dying woman thought she smelled; for in death, Chona had smelled not a hot dog but the future, a future in which devices that fit in one’s pocket and went zip, zap, and zilch delivered a danger far more seductive and powerful than any hot dog, a device that children of the future would clamor for and become addicted to, a device that fed them their oppression disguised as free thought.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones