Stephanie Sparks

“I'm pretty sure when babies are born in Oregon, they leave the hospital with birth certificates- and teeny-tiny sleeping bags.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“You make it sound like that's worse than regular dying."
"Promise me you'll never do that again."
"I promise never to almost die in Utah. I'll be extra careful from now on around Mormons.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“It is my job, Skeeter! You know well as I do, people won't buy so much as a slice of pound cake from an organization that harbors racial integrationists."
"Hilly." I just need to hear her say it.
"Just who is all that pound cake money being raised for, anyway?"
She rolls her eyes. "The Poor Starving Children of Africa?"
I wait for her to catch the irony of this, that she'll send money to colored people overseas, but not across town.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“After Lunch I sat outside and I saw the boy on the bike ride by again, and he didn't see me that time either. And he still had on the same clothes and he still looked happy.
Next day, same thing all over again. Boy, bike, clothes, happy.
In my family we never call people names because sometimes people used to call Ben names and we all hated that. When he was younger he didn't notice so much, but when he was nine, the year he died, he noticed every single time. You'd see his eyes flicker. He'd take it in. And then who knew what he'd do with it. Or how it made him feel.
Here is something bad about me.
I call people names in my head sometimes.
I don't do it to be mean.
I do it to label.
But I know names-to-label are bad too. Names-to-be-mean are worse, but both are bad.
Here's the name I called the boy in my head:
Nerd-on-a-Bike.”
― Ally Condie, Summerlost