Echo C

“But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“Jesper ran a finger up Wylan's forearm, and Wylan flushed a vibrant pink. Matthias couldn't help but sympathize with the boy. He knew what it was to be out of your depth, and he sometimes suspected they could forgo all of Kaz's planning and simply let Jesper and Nina flirt the entirety of Ketterdam into submission.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis