Tory Hoffman

“There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy. This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Democracy isn’t about everyone voting the exact same way, it’s about whether you agree to go along with the outcome of the vote even if it turns out you’re in the minority. That’s consensus.”
― Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

“It’s a situation, being invisible. You can get to a point of needing to make the loudest possible noise just to see if you are still alive.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“It hit me pretty hard, how there’s no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead