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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.”
― Jodi Meadows, Incarnate

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students”
― Richard Allington

“I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I’d thought and I actually had lots of friends.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“You speak truth to power.”
― K. Makansi, The Reaping

“The wealthy and powerful become ever more wealthy and more powerful, while the poor and oppressed grow ever more enslaved.”
― K. Makansi, The Reaping

“science, through advanced agricultural practices, through manipulation of DNA, through this and that and the other. But we are always wrong. There is only nature, and we are part of it. If we set ourselves in opposition to nature, it will always rise up against us, eventually. And it will win.”
― K. Makansi, The Reaping

“We think we improve on nature through science, through advanced agricultural practices, through manipulation of DNA, through this and that and the other. But we are always wrong. There is only nature, and we are part of it. If we set ourselves in opposition to nature, it will always rise up against us, eventually. And it will win.” I sense that, like me,”
― K. Makansi, The Reaping

“Thinking something is true doesn’t make it so. Perception is almost as important as reality.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, Independent Study

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
― Chris Hedges

“the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.”
― Aimee Carter, Pawn

“What makes us the good guys?” Elle asks softly. “We kill just as much as the enemy.” I”
― Summer Lane, State of Vengeance