My Monticello Quotes

“The seas are rising, whatever you believe. Soon we will all be wet together, and together we will gasp for air.…”
― Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello

“To me guns meant indiscriminate power, the risk of fatally misjudging someone else's worth.”
― Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello

“Not one of these young men was perfect, yet each held promise, and this promise, on balance, was enough to protect them and to buoy their young lives into the future. Five years of my life spent marveling at the resiliency of theirs.”
― Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello

“They believed their security depended on making sure we never felt safe, not even in our own bodies.”
― Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello