Hannah Verret

“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“For most of our history, straight white men have been involved in a witness protection program that guards their identities and absolves them of their crimes while offering them a future free of past encumbrances and sins.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“I have no choice but to pretend I'm the same as ever, but a canyon surrounds me now, sets me apart. I'm not sure if sex created the canyon or if it's been there all along and [he] finally made me see it. [He] says it's the latter.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“White fragility functions as a form of bullying; I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me—no matter how diplomatically you try to do so—that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism