Annie

“powerless suckers who believed in the American dream scrambling to the suburbs because they, the big boys, wanted a bigger percentage. He felt it, or thought he felt it, as they stood by the front door. There was a connection: a man whose father was dead and a woman whose father was about to die, a sense of wanting to belong, standing in the warm vestibule, she in her farm-girl dress, with a job that paid taxes and drew no cops, no Joe Pecks, no complicated phone calls from complicated people trying to pick your pocket with one”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.”
― Fred Fordham, To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel

“Irony is a linguistic trust fall.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing

“language is a thing that lives in the minds of individual humans at individual points in time, a thing that can’t be fully encompassed in a static list of rules like a game of chess.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language