Lee

“Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Reading is how I visit places and people and ideas. And when something rings true or if I still have a question, I outline it with a bright yellow highlighter so that it’s lit up in my mind, like a lightbulb or a torch leading the way to somewhere new.”
― Ibi Zoboi, Pride

“A goddess is the sum of all her believers, all the prayers and hopes and curses and despair ever uttered in her name.”
― Jay Lake, Green

“Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.”
― Jay Lake, Green

“People's lives and deaths are written in polite notes that must be passed among the powerful like dance cards.”
― Jay Lake, Green