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“Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“On the drive back, Charlie falls asleep in my car. I turn the radio on and thank the universe that my life is like this.”
― Alice Oseman, Nick and Charlie

“Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable. Or so our writers seem to say.”
― Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

“The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble an existence about which they don’t feel an unendurable level of shame.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger