Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)

by Justina Ireland

But that’s the way life goes most of the time: the thing you least count on comes along and ruins everything else you got planned. I figure it’s much better to just be all-around prepared, since the best defense is a good offense.

Everyone knows that academics are the most ruthless cutthroats around.

There’s nothing white folks hate more than realizing they accidentally treated a Negro like a person.

“See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power. Luckily there will always be people like me to stop them.”