Gregory

“Failure was always an option, because the knowledge that you couldn’t win every time gave you the courage to try. Effort”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Founded in 1868, Dickens, like most California towns except for Irvine, which was established as a breeding ground for stupid, fat, ugly, white Republicans and the chihuahuas and East Asian refugees who love them, started out as an agrarian community.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“want to decide my own value. I don’t want a price tag no more. A slave or a woman. Valued twice. First as a woman and again as not white. I’m priceless. No matter what’s been done to my body, by me or somebody else. I want to make my own rules . . . if I wanted. If I was sure.”
― Natashia Deón, Grace

“Without any family, he was a scrap of paper floating through the air, being picked up and tossed aloft with every gust.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life