Haley Montoya

“You know what my eight-year-old daughter said to me the other day, Callaghan?' asked Gong. 'She was crying. She said someone called her a Jap. And you know what my first reaction was? How dare they mistake my daughter for a fucking Jap. Now is that a healthy way to think? But that's what this country does. Not e pluribus unum, but divide and conquer. Italians, Greeks, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, you name it. Turn them all against each other, and everyone against the Blacks. Now it's the Japs' turn, but it will be some other group next- maybe us again.”
― Amy Chua, The Golden Gate

“You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night