Dovide

“There are no civilians in war, no firewalls between the blessedly ignorant and those intimately connected to networks, markets of crime and religiosity.”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn’t like yourself anymore. Dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn’t think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. The best thing she was, was her children. Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing, her beautiful, magical best thing—the part of her that was clean. No undreamable dreams about whether the headless, feetless torso hanging in the tree with a sign on it was her husband or Paul A; whether the bubbling-hot girls in the colored-school fire set by patriots included her daughter; whether a gang of whites invaded her daughter’s private parts, soiled her daughter’s thighs and threw her daughter out of the wagon. She might have to work the slaughterhouse yard, but not her daughter.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“It's not that Israel doesn't have the space or money but that it simply doesn't want to absorb Palestinians. The racist Zionist demographic obsession with a Jewish majority is the main hurdle for reconciliation in historical Palestine. As long as Israel holds to this ideology, building a just society of both Palestinians and Jews is impossible. The precondition for peace is jettisoning this ideology.
And if this ideology is jettisoned, then there is no obstacle to implementing the right of return, and so it becomes perfectly feasible.”
― Ilan Pappé, Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions that Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence

“Don't count yourself out this early, Daisy. You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six