MJ

“Adults do not talk to us—they give us directions. They issue orders without providing information.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak. Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“You can't be the rock and the river, Sam."
"The rock is high ground...Solid. Immovable."
"The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream."
"I want to be both," I whispered.”
― Kekla Magoon, The Rock and the River

“I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter