Michelle

“She’s a good woman”
― Mia Heintzelman, The Accidental Crush

“Being capable of engaging with both Austen’s work and the historical realities of its time period is not a mutually exclusive exercise, but a mutually formative one, the very stuff of being a reader in the first place. To insist otherwise only reinforces the false universalizing of our art that Morrison once called tantamount to a lobotomizing of our art. The people who think that upholding a heavily edited and whitewashed truth about an author’s historical context is the only viable way to truly protect and honor that author’s work, are in fact protecting and honoring something else entirely.”
― Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

“It was a relief to know that Alex had already done the math of convenience”
― Olivie Blake, Girl Dinner

“The moment we become scared to pursue truth and justice is the moment people doing despicable things in this world win.”
― Jumata Emill, I Don't Wish You Well