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.

One: the dead will take everything you love. You have to end them before they can end you. That’s exactly what I aim to do. And two: the person poking the dead ain’t always the one paying for it. In fact, most times, it’s the ones minding their own business who suffer.

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