Take Us to a Better Place Quotes

“I know a few who have learned the hard way that a luxury bunker is too narrow a world at any price. No more moats and walls. We will tend the garden for everyone.”
― Karen Lord, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

“Our Network will always need resources. Continue to be our facilitator, and find people to fund us. But don’t dare call it charity. Tell them to invest in the world they’d like to live in, the world they’d like to leave to future generations.”
― Karen Lord, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

“She believed in her soul that they saw each other’s flaws, each crack and fissure, and that their love filled them with the same promise: I see you, all of you, all the things you don’t want the world to know. I see what you’re ashamed of, what terrifies you, and I still choose you.”
― Achy Obejas, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

“Information is precious now. We have to protect ourselves.”
― Karen Lord, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

“All the adventure he needed was right here…a quiet day at the beach with a crime novel and enough free time to enjoy both.”
― Karen Lord, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

“Come to think of it, English did have a good word: it was fuck.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories