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“She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place where I was supposed to sign. On the paper there was a line for charges. In the blank space, someone had written “driving while female.”
― Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
― Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
“It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I am crying because the alcohol has stripped away everything that was holding me together.”
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“If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.”
― When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.”
― When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
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