Laurie

“There is a long history, in the U.S. and elsewhere, of removing children as a means of political control.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“If we fear something, it is all the more imperative we study it thoroughly.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“There is a long history, in the U.S. and elsewhere, of removing children as a means of political control. If this strikes a nerve with you—as I hope it does—please learn more about the many instances, both past and ongoing, in which children have been taken from their families: the separations of enslaved families, government boarding schools for Indigenous children (such as that in Carlisle, PA), the inequities built into the foster care system, the separations of migrant families still occurring at the U.S.’s southern border, and beyond. Much more attention needs to be brought to this subject, but Laura Briggs’s Taking Children: A History”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts