Mo Gavin

“Make peace with those you love and that love you or with those you wish to love. These are your compañeros, as the latin Americans say. Above all, resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“The day you become an adult is the day you realize that in Charleston, the worse something is, the less attention it receives.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Talk," he continued, chewing rapidly and swallowing, "is the key to liberation, one's tongue the very machete of freedom. We are the only species, some say, who have created speech. But that is only because, being far less intelligent than the majority of the other animals, and more prone to disastrous blunders, in our relationships with others, speech is so necessary.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin