Joe K.

“I sometimes think this country is an eternal battle between our best and our worst angels. Hopefully we’re listening to the good angel more often than the bad one.” She sighed. “We do that, and change will come.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them away. And we have been told that they may come tonight.” “I don’t understand! Take them where?” Her father shook his head. “We don’t know where, and we don’t really know why. They call it ‘relocation.’ We don’t even know what that means. We only know that it is wrong, and it is dangerous, and we must help.”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“Gloria felt herself floating toward a great open space where her anger at Papa could free her. But she would not, could not, take another step toward that void. Papa was a good man—an important man, Reverend Jenkins and the rest of the back-porch men said—and all important people made sacrifices.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“Wait and see,” said Elphaba. “Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. Meanwhile, why don’t you come back sometime?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: Everyone Deserves the Chance to Fly