Ms. Davis

“Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“The collective history of this sad troupe moving down the hospital corridor would become tiny blots in an American future that would one day scramble their proud histories like eggs, scattering them among the population while feeding mental junk to the populace on devices that would become as common and small as the hot dog that the dying woman thought she smelled; for in death, Chona had smelled not a hot dog but the future, a future in which devices that fit in one’s pocket and went zip, zap, and zilch delivered a danger far more seductive and powerful than any hot dog, a device that children of the future would clamor for and become addicted to, a device that fed them their oppression disguised as free thought.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“TEN REASONS WHY FATHERS CRY AT NIGHT 1. Because teenagers don’t like park swings or long walks anymore unless you’re in the mall. 2. Because holding her hand is forbidden and kisses are lethal. 3. Because school was “fine,” her day was “fine,” and yes, she’s “fine.” (So why is she weeping?) 4. Because you want to help, but you can’t read minds.”
― Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances