Melissa

“Racism is the norm rather than an aberration. Feedback is key to our ability to recognize and repair our inevitable and often unaware collusion. In recognition of this, I try to follow these guidelines: 1.   How, where, and when you give me feedback is irrelevant—it is the feedback I want and need. Understanding that it is hard to give, I will take it any way I can get it. From my position of social, cultural, and institutional white power and privilege, I am perfectly safe and I can handle it. If I cannot handle it, it’s on me to build my racial stamina. 2. Thank you.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“Yes! There is no smell like book smell.” She nodded like a woman who’d sniffed a lot of books.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“People confused nostalgia with love and end up getting divorces or having affairs and all sorts. No, I think if you haven't kept in touch for twenty years there's probably a good reason.”
― Jenny Bayliss, The Twelve Dates of Christmas