Top Ten Tuesday:
Favorite quotes from a few of the books I've read in 2020 (so far)
“...paradise is a world where everything
is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun...” -from Don't Call Us Dead: poems by Danez Smith
“And then it is another day and another and another but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.” -from Weather by Jenny Offill
“Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out “I swear to God!” is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship.” -from Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankin
“The masters could not bring water to boil, harness to horse or strap their own drawers without us. We were better than them. We had to be. Sloth was literal death for us, while for them it was the whole ambition of their lives.” -from The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing, intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves.” -from Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
“It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.” -The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
“I do not think it is brave to pick up a gun or to carry a bomb, but it is brave to open yourself up to the potential for loss and disappointment when you have already felt too much of its sting.” -from Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais
“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.” -from Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrey
“You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.” -from The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” -from East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Anne
