“she likes being good, and I like being happy.”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“Tante Isabelle says it’s better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you’ll fly before you fall.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only racial indifference, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned more than forty-five years ago.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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