“He is slippery like the cold side of a cliff. And layered, like striated bands of erosion, green and white and rust-colored lash-marks of the sea. Each time she thinks she knows him, the water level lowers, and another shade is revealed.”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
“When you’re an only child, semi-imprisoned, books become more than paper between hard cardboard, more than the alphabet organized into words and printed on a page.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“I’ve always known that laws are merely expressions of a society’s dominant beliefs. It’s the beliefs that must shift in order for outcomes to change.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“I know that it is," she says, "to see men shrink from you.”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
“Perhaps it is not cleverness that seeps through the generations but cruelty. One cold creature weaning another.”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
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