Caitlin

“Dear God, Mike, reiterate all procedures and dispense positive reinforcement immediately!”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

“A change of locale may produce a new flower,” he counseled, “but the roots will have the same disease.”
― Thomas Thompson, Serpentine: Charles Sobhraj's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia

“Getting to the other side of grief requires more than just living and breathing through the pain. Surviving trauma reaches past simply learning how to exist and hide from what is overwhelming to look at; it means finding the time and space to touch, hear, and feel the emotions that need their own validating and healing.”
― Denna Babul, The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives

“For example, many African American World War II veterans did not apply for government-guaranteed mortgages for suburban purchases because they knew that the Veterans Administration would reject them on account of their race, so applications were pointless. Those veterans then did not gain wealth from home equity appreciation as did white veterans, and their descendants could then not inherit that wealth as did white veterans’ descendants. With less inherited wealth, African Americans today are generally less able than their white peers to afford to attend good colleges.”
― Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America