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“When he first got put on a train to the school, after his mother announced she would be leaving to do her missionary work, just weeks after the night his father left for ceremony and never came back, the roar of the train was so loud he thought there was something coming out of his ears, so he held his hands against them and tried not to think of an iron horse carrying them inside it, him and Opal and the rest of the children off to an iron world, where everything was too hard to not end up hardening them, and too heavy to not end up crushing them.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical word for a gradual death of tribes and Indians, a clinical killing, designed by psychopaths calling themselves politicians.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“Everywhere you looked you saw people turned to stone. If you touched them, they'd crumble to dust. So they remained still and silent, trying not to shatter.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“All those countries that ended World War II by saying never again turned their backs.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After