K.C.

“When he first got put on a train to the school, after his mother announced she would be leaving to do her missionary work, just weeks after the night his father left for ceremony and never came back, the roar of the train was so loud he thought there was something coming out of his ears, so he held his hands against them and tried not to think of an iron horse carrying them inside it, him and Opal and the rest of the children off to an iron world, where everything was too hard to not end up hardening them, and too heavy to not end up crushing them.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“The word genocide is clinical, overly general, bloodless, and dehumanizing.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“And to a daughter, a mother was an entity too vast to know. But Bo could have been more curious. She'd assumed depths within her mother, of course, but had never asked - had never thought to ask - hadn't asked enough - to be invited in.”
― Susanna Kwan

“Why must I return and yet all of this can remain? What is so inherent or peculiar in our being that eventually we must always be separated from this primordial wonder? The chipmunk's credentials must read with more substance and authority.”
― Joe Hutto