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" You'll get used to it here, Grace.
You won't lose the sadness -
folks what's made a slave
don't ever lose the sadness -
but you'll get used to it here."

"A story can tell the truth... but a story can also lie. Stories can bend and twist and obfuscate. Controlling stories is power indeed."

It's so dark right now.

"Everybody at the hospital was jittery about new cutbacks ever since the hospital had hired a new administrator who promised to raise profits."

"It seemed to me as if the very system designed to heal these poor souls was responsible for their demise."

"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for grief to get in, so I stay busy."

"Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it."

"The white law enforcement officers... always seem to be out in larger numbers than needed, in riot helmets, wit an assortment of nightsticks, electric cattle prods and guns hanging from their belts," reported Hohn Herbers of the New York Times.

Freedom School registration form and schedule: "... we are interested in helping you to read and to criticize and understand what you read."

"...because the purpose of history, from the time of Confucius, has been to transmit moral lessons to later generations."

"Whoever says youth is the best time in your life has cash in hand and can't remember being poor."

he enjoyed the tidiness he was creating as he worked,

fit mix :p

"Oh my odd," she said.

"... what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us - not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals." - John Green as Hazel Grace describes our self-important yearnings.

"That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered." -John Green as Augustus Waters.

Levithan drops atomic truth bombs in Every Day. i.e. "...we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.. Race is different purely as a social construction, not as an inherent difference. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that." p. 77