Shari

“But the current PC dictate of being über aware of race had filtered through my consciousness, and it pissed me off. The fact that we had to be aware because of racists and bigots and horrible things appalled me. To me, people were people—good, bad, or indifferent. Race had nothing to do with where you fell on that spectrum.”
― Deborah Coonts, Lucky Score

“You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal’s throat.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation