Quote From a Book

"Even if we think we are independent, now or at some point in the past or future we were or will be utterly reliant on others."
~~from Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart
 

"The problem is not the occasional murderous dictator...It never is. The problem is the help he receives from the likeminded and the fearful. Civilization will collapse here not because of one man and his army of thugs, but because ordinary people will turn in their neighbors...There are too many collaborators."

~~from "Welcome to Valhalla" by Jack McDevitt and Kathryn Lance in Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt
 
"...[T]he people with the most confidence in themselves ...cause the bulk of the world's problems."
~~from "The Emerson Effect" in Return to Glory by Jack McDevitt
 

The [U.S.] politicians who wring their hands about "the border crisis" know full well that the undocumented population peaked over fifteen years ago, in 2007. Yet employers have not responded to a shrinking undocumented work force by hiring native-born workers at competitive wages. Instead, they have responded by automating their jobs (using machines instead), hiring other immigrants, like those on H-2A visas (Americans don't exactly queue up for immigrant jobs), or simply closing up shop.
~~from Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
 
"FOR HUMANITY: You kinda suck, but you invented books and music, so the universe will probably keep you around for a little bit longer. You got lucky. This time."
~~the dedication from In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
 
...[T]he difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death...people can refuse to believe in the possibility of their own imminent destruction, even, perhaps especially, when that destruction is certain.
~~from The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
 
...ometimes your real family doesn't understand you in the same way your chosen family does...[Y]ou have to love your blood anyway, but you also have to thank the stars for the nonblood.
~~from The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele
 
I hate that my job as a woman is to disappear any evidence of our lives, of the passing of time and be pretty and tidy all the time. Twice as capable and half as appreciated.
~~from The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
 
We associate totalitarianism mainly with labor, concentration, and extermination camps, but those are merely the final, bewildering stage of a long process.
~~from The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
 
{This one is really me; I used to think about doing a blog called "The Empty Room."}


"...the impression that her life was a series of rooms she walked into that everyone else had just left."
~~from One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
 
"In some worlds, you trade on good looks; in others, you hide them. Eventually, they abandon you anyway. Just a lot quicker when you’re homeless."

~~from The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding
 
"...if the people making the decisions were well-read and intellectually open, we might be able to have better conversations about what needs to happen."
~~from Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
 

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