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“Don't you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke?
Darling, he'd said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Darling, he'd said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings,” she said.
“The mockingjay?” He laughed. “Really, I think you’re just making these things up.”
“Not that one. A mockingjay’s a bona fide bird,” she assured him.
“And it sings in your show?” he asked.
“Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol’s anyway.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“The mockingjay?” He laughed. “Really, I think you’re just making these things up.”
“Not that one. A mockingjay’s a bona fide bird,” she assured him.
“And it sings in your show?” he asked.
“Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol’s anyway.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“The most damaging legacy of the West has been its power to decide who our enemies are, turning us not only against our own people, like North and South Korea, but turning me against myself.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping
“Whiteness has already recruited us to become their junior partners in genocidal wars; conscripted us to be antiblack and colorist; to work for, and even head, corporations that scythe off immigrant jobs like heads of wheat. Conscription is every day and unconscious. It is the default way of life among those of us who live in relative comfort, unless we make an effort to choose otherwise.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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