Amy

“In America, when you’re a Black man, you’re a boy. It doesn’t matter how old, or how educated. You’re a boy until the day you die. ‘Watch your mouth, boy. Don’t get smart, boy.’ ” He shrugged. “In France I’m a man.” “The Nazis don’t see you as a man.” “There are Nazis everywhere. They just go by different names.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches

“You talk as if we were still in the Middle Ages. The world has changed, Vivian.”

“Has it?” Vivian’s tone was mocking. “Show me a world that does not hate a powerful woman, and I’ll show you a world without men.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches

“I won't offer you sympathy because it'll only make you feel worse in this moment. I certainly won't give you pity...Instead, I offer revenge." (Lizzie)

"Are you sure you're not offering sympathy becaue you're shit at sympthany?" (Maeve)
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"Personally, I think a gentle hug or a soft word can go a long way." (Maeve)

She (Lizzie) shrugs. "There are other people better suited to provide that sort of comfort."

It's enough to make me wonder if she was never offered comfort that way, so that's why she doesn't know how to give it.”
― Katee Robert, Blood on the Tide

“We are not here to be perfect for each other.
We are here to heal what was broken by others.”
― Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr., Gay Poems for Red States