Katie Pagan

“Our former selves are never dead. We speak to them, arguing against decisions we know will bring only unhappiness, offering consolation and hope, even though they cannot hear.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

“Grief will be worn like a cloak, will drag along behind me, heavy.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“casual acceptance of—even commitment to—human deprivation, to unemployment, inflation, and disastrously reduced living standards. This is even seen as essential therapy: out of the experience of unemployment and hunger will come a new and revitalized work ethic, a working force eager for the discipline of free enterprise.”
― Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate