Paula Katon

“Working-class whites, the preeminent social economist Gunnar Myrdal wrote, “need the demarcations of caste more than upper class whites. They are the people likely to stress aggressively that no Negro can ever attain the status of even the lowest white.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“But Madeline is the tallest one in your class.” “Which is another problem,” Mudford said. “Her height is making the boys feel bad.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“she only ever seemed to bring out the worst in men. They either wanted to control her, touch her, dominate her, silence her, correct her, or tell her what to do.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Amat is sitting in a corner, doing his very best imitation of an empty corner.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown