The Resisters Quotes

“read Michael Kohlhaas, as well as The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure, and Bleak House and The Trial and To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Fire Next Time.”
― Gish Jen, The Resisters

“If, as my mother used to say, a secret is a shame or a treasure, these were treasures.”
― Gish Jen, The Resisters

“Also, now that we were just one league among many, we had needed a league name. And so we had become, despite Eleanor’s objections, Aunt Nellie’s All-Star Resistance League—the Resisters, for short.”
― Gish Jen, The Resisters

“Try to distinguish ignorance from malice. And keep your animus for malice.”
― Gish Jen, The Resisters

“...even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me.”
― Gish Jen, The Resisters