Gregory

“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

“to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“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

“Can anyone survive without faith, however it is labeled? No matter how you live your life, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.”
― Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots