Jaksen

“Poverty makes a crime of every indulgence.”
― George Gissing, The Nether World [with Biographical Introduction]

“The only road to equality—a sense of common humanity; peace—is sharing, my mother’s orange. When we share, you are not using your privilege to get me to line up behind you. When we share, you are not insisting on being my savior. Claire and I always looked for the sharers, the people who just said, “I have sugar, I have water. Let’s share”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses.

[RICHARD ETHERIDGE, referring to his mother]”
― David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police