Rachael Button

“Because if you grow up to be the kind of person who asks questions about who you are, why things are the way they are, and what we could do to make them better, then you still have hope for the world.”
― Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“Not just me,” Stephen says, looking to Jimmy. “Us. All of us. What we did. What we fought for. Our history. Who we are. They won’t teach it in schools. They don’t want us to have a history. They don’t see us. They don’t know we are another country, with invisible borders, that we are a people. You have to make them see.” Stephen takes a strained breath. “You have to remember it. And to share it. Please. Time passes, and people forget. Don’t let them.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

“What we did. What we fought for. Our history. Who we are. They won't teach it in schools. They don't want us to have a history. They don't see us. They don't know we are another country, with invisible borders, that we are people. You have to make them see. You have to remember it. And to share it. Please. Time passes, and people forget. Don't let them.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners