Randall Buchta

“A few minutes later, seemingly out of nowhere, he pointed to the dirt and said, “You know, white folks and black folks all buried over top of each other in here. I guess old white granddaddy and his brothers was buried in here too. Really no tellin who in this ground now.” Only thing he knew for sure, he said, was that there was something beautiful about the idea of slave-owning white Lackses being buried under their black kin. “They spending eternity in the same place,” he told me, laughing. “They must’ve worked out their problems by now!”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act. —MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Flirt

“You're mine, Angel. And I'm yours. Nothing can change that.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence