Melissa

“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

“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